Re: Adding device file to /dev.
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 02:37:19PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> Another thing any package that depends on the creation of nodes under /dev
> MUST depend on "makedev | devfsd". People who run devfsd do not need to have
> makedev installed.
Well, makedev is priority: required and section: base. Is it
necessary for packages to declare an explicit dependency in that
case?
Admittedly, it's not essential: yes. Nor is libc6.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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