[oe] [PATCH 2/2] udev: moved udevadm to the main udev package

[Phil Blundell]

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 13:59 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 13:31 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> [...]
> >> I belive that the right way to fix it is add a binary package only for
> >> udevadm
> >
> > That's pretty much what udev-utils is: it doesn't contain any binaries
> > apart from udevadm.
> 
> In this case the binary package is wrong.

Why so?

> >> and make udev depends on it and mdev suggests it.
> >
> > Mdev itself doesn't have any use for udevadm, so having mdev Recommend
> > udev-utils wouldn't be the right thing; this would just be a waste of
> > space for people who are using mdev without HAL (which, I suspect, is
> > actually the majority of mdev users).
> 
> Agreed. But AFAIK suggested packages do not get installed by bitbake by default.

Ah yes, sorry, I misread your first mail.  Having mdev Suggest
udev-utils would indeed be harmless since you're right, ipkg doesn't
install suggestions automatically.  It would still be fairly pointless
though since nothing in mdev makes any use of udev-utils.

p.