On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 23:07 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:15:34 -0400, David T Hollis > <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > With udev now handling /dev and repopulating upon reboot, it seems that > > the dev and MAKEDEV packages are no longer relevant. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130746 > > I'm not sure its safe to say the static dev packages are completely > irrelevant now. > In looking into the dev requirement for which (which struck me as quite odd), I found this bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99275 . The which package needs dev so that the postinstall scripts calling install-info can use "> /dev/null". There were ordering problems with 'which' being installed before 'dev' since 'which' doesn't have much in the way of requirements. I suppose it may be better to have a requirement on /dev/null, though currently only 'dev' provides it. If there is a future without 'dev' (optional or mandatory), that sort of scenario will need to be addressed. -- David T Hollis <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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