Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16 2009, Bdale Garbee wrote: > >> Bug #545309 causes me to realize that the recent lowering of priority >> for makedev to 'extra' motivates a review and update of policy section >> 10.6. > >> Given udev, the majority of Debian systems in the future are unlikely to >> have makedev installed at all. > > 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. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
