[arch-dev-public] about makedevs script

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am Montag, 10. März 2008 schrieb Aaron Griffin:
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> >  Another question is - what is the purpose of /sbin/makedevs?
> >  It is not used by initscripts, why it's in the package then?
>
> I have no idea. I think this is a holdover from devfs days.
>
> I vote we kill it, rather than update it. If someone wants a static
> /dev, they can do it with mknod

also there is a makedev script in extra

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Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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