Bug#585786: New dependencies pull in mdadm and mdsetup even when not needed

Christian Mueller cm1 at mumac.de
Thu Jun 24 15:34:29 UTC 2010


Since xfce depends on eject and eject depends on libdevmapper, the fix 
to 585786 causes mdadm and mdsetup to be installed when I try to update 
my Squeeze box. However, I don't use RAIDs or LVM and would rather not 
have the corresponding tools installed. This may not be very important 
but it's a nuisance...

Wouldn't it be better to have mdadm and mdsetup depend on a specific 
version of libdevmapper? Or is this an issue with eject depending on 
libdevmapper?

Thanks,
--Christian





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