On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 05:54:27PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:22:16PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > I'd do this, my rpm-fu is still reasonably strong, though - I'm curious,
> > is there a compelling reason to split out just libcom-err? what about
> > libuuid? libblkid? e2fsprogs is a bit of a grab bag of things. What's
> > the rationale for the split?
>
> Nope, there isn't much rationale unless we also split out fsck, so
util-linux-ng is open for fsck :-)
Seriously, when we move fsck(8) to util-linux-ng we can compile this
util against libblkid **or** libvolume_id (udev). For example Suse prefers
libvolume_id, but RHEL/Fedora prefers libblkid, ..etc. The util-linux-ng
already has fsprobe API for both libraries -- port fsck(8) to
this API is 10mins work...
> that people who don't want to use any ext 2/3/4 filesystems don't need
> to install programs like e2fsck, mke2fs, libext2fs.so, etc.
mount(8) dependences on libblkid (or libvolume_id from udev).
I think sane downstream distributions are using separate binary
package(s) (RPM calls it subpackages) for libraries from e2fsprogs.
My $0.02...
Karel
PS. my workstation with Fedora 7:
# rpm -q --whatrequires libcom_err.so.2 libuuid.so.1 libblkid.so.1 | sort -u
apr-1.2.8-6
apr-util-1.2.8-7
cryptsetup-luks-1.0.5-4.fc7.1
curl-7.16.2-1.fc7
e2fsprogs-libs-1.40.2-2.fc7
evolution-data-server-1.10.3.1-2.fc7
gnome-vfs2-2.18.1-4.fc7
krb5-devel-1.6.1-4.fc7
krb5-libs-1.6.1-4.fc7
libpurple-2.1.1-1.fc7
neon-0.25.5-6
openssl-0.9.8b-14.fc7
pam_krb5-2.2.11-1
parted-1.8.6-4.fc7
subversion-1.4.3-4
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Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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