David T Hollis schrieb:
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.
does /dev/null exists when using udev?
