Bug#35612: marked as done (sparc: /dev/mouse -> sunmouse)
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Subject: sparc: /dev/mouse -> sunmouse
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From: Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
Date: 06 Apr 1999 02:37:06 -0400
In-Reply-To: Orion the Hunter's message of "Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:49:17 -0500"
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: slink
Severity: important
Architecture: sparc
Since xserver-xsun and gpm and many other pacakges assume /dev/mouse
is a link to a valid mouse, and since by default only /dev/sunmouse is
created on the boot-floppies, for sparc, we should make a symlink from
/dev/mouse -> sunmouse.
Orion the Hunter <orion@massey.ee.nd.edu> writes:
> Regarding the /dev/mouse symlink problem, I'd say it's better to keep
> the symlink (and bear the work to manage it). In this way applications
> don't have to worry about where the mouse is, whatever platform it's
> running in. True, there aren't that many applications using the moouse
> directly but why run the risk? After all, one more symlink is not a
> problem (famous last words).
--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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