Debian Developers - Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

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Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

Thomas Viehmann

2005-03-04, 5:58 pm

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 2.6 kernel, alsa-base doesn't end up being installed. The result is that
> for most sound cards, both OSS and ALSA modules end up installed,
> resulting in various and random problems. To avoid that, shouldn't the
> kernel-image packages for 2.6 depend on alsa-base?
Please not. There's people running kernels without needing sound or
alsa-base. I wouldn't mind recommends/suggests, but depends is a litte
bit strong IMO.

Kind regards

Thomas
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