[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: virtual/modutils and module-init-tools

[Duncan]

Walter Dnes posted on Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:04:22 -0500 as excerpted:

> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 08:28:23AM +0000, Duncan wrote
>
>> That leaves those using a dev-manager other than udev in a current
>> installation who are depending on the current system set listing to
>> bring in module-init-tools.  I believe busybox has it's own modutils as
>> well, doesn't it, so that eliminates them.
>
>   Would this require tweaking the virtual/dev-manager ebuild?  Taking a
> quick glance at http://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html it does have
> lsmod/modprobe/rmmod, but not modinfo.  Are there any ebuilds or init
> scripts that use modprobe or rmmod?  If so, the ebuild should at least
> have an ewarn message telling mdev users to create the necessary
> symlinks to modprobe/rmmod.  Maybe even attempt to create the symlinks
> if they don't already exist.

FWIW I don't have busybox installed either (negating @system entry in 
/etc/portage/profiles/packages, I use either init=/bin/bash on the kernel 
command line, or a second copy of the rootfs taken when the system was 
generally stable, as my emergency boot solution, no busybox necessary), 
so I'm not familiar with it at all.

But as I stated I've had module-init-tools in package.provided for quite 
some time, no noticed ill effects.  The only deps I see on it presently 
are sys-apps/rescan-scsi-bus (itself a dep of k3b, cd/dvd-burning app, 
this will obviously be replaced with a virtual/modutils dep) and
virtual/modutils itself.  I don't see any deps on virtual/modutils 
presently.  But of course I don't have all apps installed, either.

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