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

2013/7/30 Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]>

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> On Jul 30, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
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> 2013/7/30 Tomasz Paweł Gajc <[email protected]>
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>> **
>> It still provides dev and still owns /dev directory.
>>
>> This has to be fixed and some parts need to be moved to filesystem and
>> udev subpackage or kmod.
>>
> Speaking of, despite my objection previously, someone went ahead and
> merged the setup & filesystem package, which given that /etc/passwd needs
> to exist before the filesystem package in order for usernames to be
> available to set file ownership, just screws up further what was intended
> to be fixed.
>
> Would be nice if this change would get reverted.
>
>
> Reverting is perfectly sane if and only if setup is ordered before
> all other packages always.
>
> Installing setup (for password lookup) isn't close to being true for any
> modern linux distro, and
> (last I looked) was particularly bad in  Mandriva based systems, with
> large numbers
> of dependency loop's.
>
> Short answer:
> It simply does not matter whether you have combined setup+filesystem
> or separate setup and filesystem packages.
>
Sure, it's an issue to address, and as we're currently left in this
situation, it doesn't really matter (merging the two were a flawed attempt
to resolve this), but I really hope to be able to address the ordering
issue sometime in the not so distant future. :)

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Regards,
Per Øyvind