Package: makedev Version: 2.3.1-19 Severity: important Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 02:44:43PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > May I add a few items?: > > > > > > * Sound devices should be back in the base system (they are currently > > > missing). > > > > IIRC, there are two different sets of sound devices, OSS ones and ALSA > > ones. > > Are they incompatible? > > I refer to /dev/sound, /dev/dsp, etc. > > > IMHO, creating sound devices should be part of the sound > > configuration steps, (we don't even ship a sound-enabled kernel, do we?). > > An unused device does not make any harm, and saves you the trouble to > create it when you need it, and it was there in Debian 2.0. IMHO, these > devices should not have had disappeared. Ok. This email opens an important a makedev bug. This message is an important bug report so that we can get the makedev postinst to add sound devices. This should just mean something like, in makedev postinst: [ -e /dev/audio ] || cd /dev && /dev/MAKEDEV audio I don't really see what possible harm this could cause. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
