On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 09:08:56PM +0100, Godefridus Daalmans wrote:
> About that error with the mdev packaging:
>
> if you purge udev, does that mean you need the old-fashioned /dev/MAKEDEV
> script back to create the device nodes?
>
> it's in Debian package makedev. and it says Conflicts: udev, but that
> doesn't mean it gets re-installed automagically after udev is purged,
> unfortunately :-(

mdev does not depend on makedev; it creates devices itself.

HTH
Isaac Dunham