Il giorno mer, 05/04/2006 alle 11.54 -0400, Derek Piper ha scritto: > 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. Actually "gnome" ships hal, which requires udev for most hardware-magic support, including hotplugging. As of ~080 -can't remember the exact number- "hotplug" itself has been deprecated and udev provides hotplugging support -including firmware management, my dsl usb modem works fine thanks to that support- AFAIK. I'm sorry I don't understand the "independent udev upgrade" and "rely on each other" issues, though. I don't see what's the problem, therefore. ~marco
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