On Sep 11, Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> wrote: > 1) generate more device files in the postinst of the package with > mknod (which is a policy violation IIRC) Right. > 2) make makedev produce more of these files (but probably most users > don't need them, at least not on desktop PCs which have seldomly > two mouses or keyboards) It could be done, but many users would need anyway to adjust the permissions (which is hard, because a device can easily move among nodes). > 3) Just tell each user to fix it himself (e.g. in a README.Debian > file). Not really complicated, just some calls to mknod > (or an installation of udev), but... I favour this. If for some weird reason an user does not want to use udev, let him deal with the results without having to make your package more complex. -- ciao, Marco
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