On Jan 08, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote: > debootstrap is not only used to install Debian on Debian, and being a > tad too aggressive with this removal might not be the best move forward. I welcome reporting use cases which would require a full static /dev. The only one I can think about is "installing the OS with debootstrap on bare metal without udev", but if somebody is crazy enough to do this then I think that they can manually install and run MAKEDEV as well. > On the other hand, making a change and getting some feedback from people > who got their stuff broken with it, possibly with patches, wouldn't be > /so/ bad. If there are some doubts that devices.tar.gz could still be needed in the future then I would start with a smaller patch which keeps all the old code around. -- ciao, Marco
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