[arch-dev-public] delete 'makedev' from extra?
https://dev.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/makedev/ Is this package still used by anyone? Even the main page says "MAKEDEV is largely obsoleted by udev on modern systems."
2008/10/16, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
https://dev.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/makedev/
Is this package still used by anyone? Even the main page says "MAKEDEV is largely obsoleted by udev on modern systems."
You can delete it. -- Arch Linux Developer (voidnull) AUR & Pacman Italian Translations Microdia Developer http://www.archlinux.it
2008/10/16 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
https://dev.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/makedev/
Is this package still used by anyone? Even the main page says "MAKEDEV is largely obsoleted by udev on modern systems."
I have a feeling the new "five second boot" article and resulting competitions may revive MAKEDEV. However, I think the script would be much better off in [unsupported] where the people playing with this stuff have more access to it. Dusty
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Dusty Phillips <buchuki@gmail.com> wrote:
2008/10/16 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
https://dev.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/makedev/
Is this package still used by anyone? Even the main page says "MAKEDEV is largely obsoleted by udev on modern systems."
I have a feeling the new "five second boot" article and resulting competitions may revive MAKEDEV. However, I think the script would be much better off in [unsupported] where the people playing with this stuff have more access to it.
Well, if you really want all the devices for your computer, you can run udev once and just copy the /dev dir.
Aaron Griffin schrieb:
I have a feeling the new "five second boot" article and resulting competitions may revive MAKEDEV. However, I think the script would be much better off in [unsupported] where the people playing with this stuff have more access to it.
Well, if you really want all the devices for your computer, you can run udev once and just copy the /dev dir.
I don't get those OMGIBOOTFASTER things. Besides, it is possible that in the future major/minor numbers will be dynamically assigned by the kernel, this is already possible with alsa so you can support a large number of sound cards. udev does its job fine, we don't need to support deprecated static /dev methods.
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Aaron Griffin schrieb:
I have a feeling the new "five second boot" article and resulting competitions may revive MAKEDEV. However, I think the script would be much better off in [unsupported] where the people playing with this stuff have more access to it.
Well, if you really want all the devices for your computer, you can run udev once and just copy the /dev dir.
I don't get those OMGIBOOTFASTER things. Besides, it is possible that in the future major/minor numbers will be dynamically assigned by the kernel, this is already possible with alsa so you can support a large number of sound cards. udev does its job fine, we don't need to support deprecated static /dev methods.
Agreed. Removing. I will move it to unsupported
participants (4)
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Aaron Griffin
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Dusty Phillips
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Giovanni Scafora
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Thomas Bächler