Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>"Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joseph> device3dfx-source builds device3dfx-module. Since you NEED > Joseph> THAT MODULE in order to use Glide for the Voodoo3, the > Joseph> dependency BELONGS THERE. It is not my problem that the > Joseph> maintainer of that package chooses not to build the module > Joseph> for standard kernels. > Have you considered asking the maintainer? And I think it > would make more sense to redirect these reports as a (perhaps > wishlist) bug against device3dfx-source asking for binary modules for > standard kernels. This is probably off-topic for debian-policy, but dependencies is not particularly useful for kernel modules. What should happen in this case is that the library (or the calling program if the interface permits) should produce a helpful message when /dev/3dfx cannot be opened (hopefully it already does so in the case where it does not exist) because of ENODEV. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
