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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:54:27 -0400 From: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] obsolete libcom-err for SuSE e2fsprogs 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 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. The main reason why Debian did was more out of code wanking reasons than anything else, as far as I know.... - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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