tags 476728 pending thanks
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 the mental interface of Joey Hess told: > Package: alsa-utils > Version: 1.0.16-1 > Severity: normal > > alsa-utils recommends udev, but on the minority of systems that don't > use udev, it can certianly work fine w/o it, and having udev be pulled > onto such a system by a recommends can cause other breakage. > > The recommends seems to serve no purpose on the majority of systems, > since they already have udev installed. > > So I think this recommendation should be dropped. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: lenny/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on: > ii dialog 1.1-20080316-1 Displays user-friendly dialog > boxe > ii libasound2 1.0.16-2 ALSA library > ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > ii libncurses5 5.6+20080405-1 Shared libraries for terminal > hand > ii linux-sound-base 1.0.16-1.1 base package for ALSA and OSS > soun > ii lsb-base 3.2-8 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init > scrip > ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel > mo > ii pciutils 1:2.2.10-1 Linux PCI Utilities > ii python 2.5.2-0.1 An interactive high-level > object-o > ii whiptail 0.52.2-11.2 Displays user-friendly dialog > boxe > > Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends: > ii alsa-base 1.0.16-1.1 ALSA driver configuration files > ii udev 0.114-2 /dev/ and hotplug management > daemo > > -- no debconf information > > -- > see shy jo > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-alsa-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-alsa-devel -- You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

