Greetings,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for the quick and thorough reply. If you will indulge me a bit further - how can I tell dpkg to forget about the dependency? --purge --force-depends will get module-init-tools removed, but then the first thing it does when I try to install anything else is try to re-install module-init-tools. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Matthew Lockner</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Elimar Riesebieter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:riesebie@lxtec.de">riesebie@lxtec.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">* Matthew Lockner [100118 15:47 -0600]<br>
<div class="im">> Hello,<br>
><br>
> Today I built a completely module-free kernel, with the intention of<br>
> switching my system over to using absolutely no kernel modules. When I went<br>
> to uninstall module-init-tools, dpkg presented an error:<br>
<br>
</div>Alsa controls module management via /etc/modprobe.d. To do that<br>
module-init-tools is needed.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> # dpkg --purge module-init-tools<br>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of module-init-tools:<br>
> linux-sound-base depends on module-init-tools (>= 3.2.1).<br>
> powermgmt-base depends on module-init-tools.<br>
> kernel-package depends on module-init-tools (>= 0.9.10).<br>
> alsa-base depends on module-init-tools (>= 3.2.1).<br>
> alsa-utils depends on module-init-tools.<br>
> oss-compat depends on module-init-tools | modutils | hurd; however:<br>
> Package module-init-tools is to be removed.<br>
> Package modutils is not installed.<br>
> Package hurd is not installed.<br>
> dpkg: error processing module-init-tools (--purge):<br>
> dependency problems - not removing<br>
> Errors were encountered while processing:<br>
> module-init-tools<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> I was surprised to see that. Could you elaborate on this<br>
> dependency?<br>
<br>
</div>We need that for 99,99% of users and the cooperation with the Debian<br>
standard kernel.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> What problems might occur without module-init-tools?<br>
<br>
</div>If your sound is static, none.<br>
<br>
Elimar<br>
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>what IMHO then?<br>
IMHO - Inhalation of a Multi-leafed Herbal Opiate ;)<br>
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