Re: [OM Cooker] Odp.: Re: Makedev perl to bash conversion

Per Øyvind Karlsen <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:56:42 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.cooker.devel,gmane.linux.openmandriva.cooker.devel
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2013/7/30 Matthew Dawkins <[email protected]>

> Afaict makedev isn't even installed anymore...
>
> I don't have it on my installs... Do you?
> Can we move to retired the package from main?
>
I think the only usefulness of makedev package is the files under /dev, in
situations where /dev hasn't been mounted..
These special devices could just as well be moved to a different package.

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Regards,
Per Øyvind