[arch-dev-public] delete 'makedev' from extra?

Dusty Phillips buchuki at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 18:00:00 EDT 2008


2008/10/16 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at 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



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