--- Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: 
> It seems that modutils and module-init-tools are duplicating most of the
> work.
> Both of them do some check as of the kernel's ability to load modules,
> module-init-tools also checks for /proc/modules.
> Then both run depmod, modutils does a bit more work at it.
> Next both of them load all the modules in /etc/modules and check about
> modules in /boot.
> Is this redundant work on purpose, or is it a bug, since there is no
> problem installing both packages together, which causes a bunch of
> module already in the kernel errors on startup.
> 

modultils -- kernel < 2.5.48
module-init-tools -- kernel >= 2.5.48

Of course, module if module-init-tools finds an earlier kernel, it passes the
work on to the old version.

-Roberto

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