Bart G wrote:
During upgrades I occasionally come accross packages that I don't think I need. Last night I removed one of those packages (hotplug). This morning my system didn't boot up entirely (no network interfaces & gdm wouldn't start). Re-installing hotplug solved the problem, however, I would have thought apt-get would have prevented me from removing such an important package. I'm hoping some of you can help me determine if there is a missing package dependency and what it might be. Thanks, Bart
Bart, there are many other ways for the modules that hotplug finds to be made known to the system, like discover or manual methods. How could apt know that you needed it? Some might remove hotplug for sound reasons on a server box. Or, perhaps a fellow wants a box that does *not* connect for some reason. Apt does not yet read minds, even though I think it should. :-) Regards, Joe