On Apr 01, Bdale Garbee <bd...@gag.com> wrote: > I've been telling people for something like a decade that they should > call /sbin/MAKEDEV explicitly and not depend on the symlink in /dev, so > I have little sympathy for any package affected by this change... I have been telling people for years to use /dev/MAKEDEV instead, and udev provides and will continue to provide as long as needed a symlink there (to /bin/true). I expect that very few or no packages will fail if makedev is not installed, and definitely no important one.
> So I think we have enough information for me to write up a proposal to > transition the makedev package to priority optional. I'm not inclined I think you should just do it... I do not expect that this will be controversial or have relevant effects. -- ciao, Marco
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