On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 21:15 -0400, David T Hollis wrote: > With udev now handling /dev and repopulating upon reboot, it seems that > the dev and MAKEDEV packages are no longer relevant. However, they can > not be uninstalled due to manual requirements for some packages: [snip] > I'm not terribly concerned about these packages from a space perspective > (especially since all of dev's files get blown away anyway!) but now rpm > --verify dev blows up in all kinds of fun ways since all of its files > are missing. With the active discussions about udev, I'm quite certain > that it is not the only way to do things at this point and the dev and > MAKEDEV packages will remain for those that prefer that method, but > should these dependencies be investigated to see just how necessary they > really are? dev is of potentially dubious relevance now, yes. MAKEDEV is still quite relevant (although the comment about moving it to /sbin makes good sense to me). The full fallout of udev has just begun, though... :) Jeremy
