Re: makedev is now priority extra
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16 2009, Bdale Garbee wrote:
>
>> Bug #545309 causes me to realize that the recent lowering of priority
>> for makedev to 'extra' motivates a review and update of policy section
>> 10.6.
>
>> Given udev, the majority of Debian systems in the future are unlikely to
>> have makedev installed at all.
>
> Actually, udev, while nice, is optional, and I think I have read
> reports of admins opting _not_ to have udev on the system, so in some
> cases one may have systems without udev and with MAKEDEV. Policy should
> try to support this, if we can.
It's only optional in theory as if you don't use it you're totally on
your own.
Cheers
Luk
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