Question to the Debian GNOME maintainers about udev
Hi,
I apologise for the cross-posting and if this is not the right forum in
which to bring this up, but I'd like to ask this: *Why* does gnome have
a dependency to udev? Can it not simply utilize the hotplug features of
udev if it exists and just use the regular /dev directory if not?
I am in this predicament:
I want to upgrade a couple of machines to kernel 2.6.16
Apparently you need a later version of udev than is in the debian stable
branch (0.056). I upgraded another machine to 2.6.16 but not the udev
and it crashed relatively quickly. Updated the udev from backports.org
to 0.087 and all is fine. In doing so it removed gnome from that
machine, not to worry on that one since I wasn't using it anyway.
The problem is that I have another machine that I use for audio work
that I would like to have the gnome-volume-control available on but I
want to upgrade its kernel too. Now the dependency rears its ugly head
since I can't upgrade udev without uninstalling gnome (I guess because
udev gets uninstalled and then drags off gnome with it). I want the
latest kernel on here to make sure I get all the driver updates since
I'm resolving sound issues.
If gnome just RECOMMENDED the hotplug/udev package instead of being tied
to it it'd be a *lot* smarter and would allow udev to be upgraded
independently of gnome, which is the way is should be since they really
don't RELY on each other.
I moved to Debian so I didn't have to do all this dependency-hell like
Redhat so I'm kind of aggravated by it.
So, back to the original question. Why have a dependency?
Derek
PS: I also apologise if this has been beaten to death previously. I
searched for 'gnome' and 'udev' on the mailing list search and didn't
see anything.
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Derek Piper - dcpiper@indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111
IRI 323, School of Informatics
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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