[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#446953: Bug#446953: linux-sound-base depends on udev

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 the mental interface of
Ian Jackson told:

> Package: linux-sound-base
> Version: 1.0.14-2
> 
> Depends: ... udev (>= 0.084-1) ...
> 
> However my system does not have udev installed and it should be
> possible for this to continue to be the case.
> 
> What functionality from udev does linux-sound-base use ?

The sound system can be selected by running:

    dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base

    When ALSA is selected, all OSS modules are blacklisted for udev.
    When OSS is selected, all ALSA modules are blacklisted for udev.

> Perhaps
> there is some other way of solving the problem.

Well, etch, lenny and sid are running all 2.6 kernels >= 2.6.18. So
in that case udev is the first choice of managing drivers (kernel
modules) . I don't know what kernel version you're running, but
sarge or even potato or slink are no more maintained by the
alsa-maintainers :-)

And please notice that 1.0.14 sound drivers are integrated in
2.6.22/23 Kernel. So why don't you want to run udev?

Elimar

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