On Jul 05, 2007 12:41 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 04 July 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Sorry, but it's really annoying to pull in a filesystem-specific devel > > package for that. Having a library is fine, but please move the library > > into util-linux so it's always available without another dependency. > > ugh, moving libraries which are already actively maintained by other core > projects into util-linux is so not a good idea (ignoring the fact that it'd > easily be a pita/waste for distro maintainers) Some distros (Debian and SuSE I think) split the e2fsprogs libraries into separate packages so that you are not depending on "e2fsprogs", but rather "libuuid" and/or "libblkid". > > That way xfsprogs could for example drop it's own detection library aswell. > > i dont really think this is dependent on util-linux at all. nothing is > stopping xfsprogs from depending on udev or e2fsprogs now. In fact, Eric Sandeen and I discussed splitting the xfsprogs "libdisk" (or similar, it detects RAID geometry for DM/MD/etc) into a standalone library so that e2fsprogs could use it. The only issue is the increased maintenance and packaging of separate libraries. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
