Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> Do I need the "dev" package if I am using devfs?  

No. I guess, it should not even install (at least, last time I tried to 
update MAKEDEV that is built from the same SRPM, it said "mounted devfs 
detected" - or like - and aborted).

If I am using devfs
> why do I need the nodes in the /dev directory?
>

You mean "on disk /dev"? You do not need. Of course, if you ever boot 
without devfs ...

-andrej


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