Robin H. Johnson posted on Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:21:40 +0000 as excerpted: > I think we should examine dropping virtual/modutils from system. > It'll be on most systems anyway however. It's needed to build any > kernel, so the only place where it won't be would be a system with a > monolithic kernel that was built on a different host and copied over or > used for booting without being on the filesystem (common in VMs).
I beg to disagree. I've been building monolithic kernels for years now, and had module-init-tools in package.provided and not on the system at all. In fact, that's the case for both my main amd64 system and my 32-bit x86 netbook system. No module-init-utils. You are however correct that it'll be on most systems, at least with udev-181, since udev won't build without kmod, now. (I found that out when the build broke on me due to missing kmod, as I've had udev unmasked for awhile and got 181 before kmod was added as a dep.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
