> I didn't know what egd was up until today, but reading what it is I > completely understand that consideration. However, this breaks a number > of packages (wget, python, ruby). > > There's probably a simple solution: Just add dummy functions that > always return -1 (which according to the docs means "egd not > available"). This is also what openssl did on archs that had no egd.
This is not the right way to fix this. The right way is to talk to your package maintainers and ask them to configure these software without egd support.
