Does Warty need modutils ?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

This is scary: I asked synaptic to remove modutils (I'm running 2.6) and it
insisted that it would also have to remove ubuntu-base, among other things.

This doesn't seem right, and I'm not gonna do it any time soon.

++ kevin


On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:18:10 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 12:05:46AM +0100, Roland Wegmann wrote:
> 
> > On my Warty both modutils and module-init-tools are installed. Does
> > Warty need modutils and module-init-tools at the same time? Or can I
> > remove modutils via synaptic (I read modutils supports only 2.4.x
> > kernels)?
> >
> > Where does modutils come from? I never installed it (or I can't
> > remember).
> 
> modutils is only needed for 2.4.x kernels.  You can safely remove it if you
> are running a 2.6.x kernel (as all Ubuntu systems do by default).
> 
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