Bug 664

Summary:	the dev package can be accidentally uninstalled!
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	prabhu
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	low
Version:	8.0	CC:	prabhu, rvokal
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Description prabhu 1999-01-01 18:52:35 UTC

The dev package can be accidentally uninstalled and sys
admins who are unaware of this can land up in trouble if
they uninstall this package by mistake.  This may not be a
bug but I have seen cases of people who have actually done
this and had severe problems once they did this.  This is
because according to RPM no package needs dev (this is
obviously very wrong).

# rpm -q --whatrequires dev
no package requires dev
#

prabhu

Comment 1 Alan Cox 2002-12-13 19:06:28 UTC

Just scanning over bug pre-history

Its now pinned in place by mkinitrd at least. Surely the kernel can also require
this now ?

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-12-13 19:20:09 UTC

Changed initscripts in CVS to require dev. That should cover most of the
non-esoteric setups.