With udev, are dev and MAKEDEV still required?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Aug 25 16:01:10 UTC 2004


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





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