Re: makedev is now priority extra
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:11:57AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
>> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Er, what do you base that statement on?
On the observation that more and more key components rely on udev and
that we won't special case for the lack of it unless that's trivial to do.
Cheers
Luk
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