Hello,<div><br></div><div>Today I built a completely module-free kernel, with the intention of switching my system over to using absolutely no kernel modules. When I went to uninstall module-init-tools, dpkg presented an error:</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div># dpkg --purge module-init-tools</div><div>dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of module-init-tools:</div><div> linux-sound-base depends on module-init-tools (>= 3.2.1). </div>
<div> powermgmt-base depends on module-init-tools. </div><div> kernel-package depends on module-init-tools (>= 0.9.10). </div><div> alsa-base depends on module-init-tools (>= 3.2.1). </div>
<div> alsa-utils depends on module-init-tools. </div><div> oss-compat depends on module-init-tools | modutils | hurd; however:</div><div> Package module-init-tools is to be removed. </div>
<div> Package modutils is not installed. </div><div> Package hurd is not installed. </div><div>dpkg: error processing module-init-tools (--purge):</div><div>
dependency problems - not removing</div><div>Errors were encountered while processing:</div><div> module-init-tools</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I was surprised to see that. Could you elaborate on this dependency? What problems might occur without module-init-tools?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Matthew Lockner</div><div><br></div></div>