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Bug 44405 - hotplug has hard dependencies on pciutils and usbutils
Summary: hotplug has hard dependencies on pciutils and usbutils
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2004-03-11 17:31 UTC by Jason Wever (RETIRED)
Modified: 2004-04-02 15:50 UTC (History)
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Description Jason Wever (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-11 17:31:31 UTC 
Hotplug currently has hard dependencies on pciutils and usbutils.  This causes any system that wants to emerge udev to have to install those packages, whether the system has PCI and/or USB or not.  From reading around on the hotplug website, it doesn't seem that these are in fact hard dependencies, though I could be wrong.  

Basically what I'm looking for out of this bug is a way to install udev so that it doesn't install programs which are not applicable to a given system.  Hotplug seemed the culprit.
Comment 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-20 11:26:10 UTC 
Yes, hotplug needs to get split up, and for 2.6 those dependancies are not
needed anymore.

Will work on this in the future.
Comment 2 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-29 16:36:12 UTC 
Ok, hotplug is now split up into hotplug-base and hotplug.

Next release of udev will only depend on hotplug-base, so you will not
need pciutils and usbutils or the full hotplug package in order to work properly
for udev.
Comment 3 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-02 15:50:04 UTC 
as of udev release 024, you do not need pciutils and usbutils to be installed 
on your system.