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

[Ihar Hrachyshka]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I think udev-udevadm is more sound for me.

It's not only udevadm:
FILES_udev-utils = "${usrbindir}/udevinfo ${sbindir}/udevadm
${usrbindir}/udevtest"

>
>>> >> 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.
>
> Or maybe hal ought to depends on udev-(utils|udevadm) instead ;-)

Not all hal users need these binaries, don't they?

>
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