Re: ifupdown writes to /etc... a bug?

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> writes:

> Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Hi Anthony!
> >
> > You wrote:
> >
> >> > What about modules.conf?  It is recreated on boot, so it could probably
> >> > be moved too, I guess.
> >> 
> >> YM /lib/modules/*/modules.* ? modules.conf is regenerated when
> >> update-modules is called.
> >
> However, the current alsa-base package calls update-modules from
> /etc/init.d/alsa. Should this be regarded as a bug?

I think so.

There is no need to run update-modules upon every startup. Once after
the package is installed (=> postinst) should be enough.

Phil.