Re: makedev is now priority extra
On Mon, Oct 05 2009, Luk Claes wrote:
> 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.
Hmm? If we are taking that stance, why is udev still an optional
package? How is the end user to know that removing an optional package
would violate their warranty?
manoj
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