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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 20:22:08 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: Sven Hartge <sven@...nhartge.de>, <924275@...s.debian.org> CC: <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, <darrick.wong@...cle.com>, <control@...s.debian.org> Subject: Re: Bug#924275: Pulls in lvm2 packages on systems not needing them tag 924275 +pending thanks On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 09:29:04PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > > While I like the new fsck-via-LVM-snapshot feature, I think adding lvm2 > to Recommends is too agressive here. > > On systems not using LVM this will needlessly pull in the whole LVM/DM > machinery, including changes to the initramfs, as long as apt is in its > default "install-recommends" configuration. > > Only on systems where the system admin has changed the default to > "no-install-recommends" nothing will happen. Agreed; thanks for pointing this out! I have the following patches queued for the next release. - Ted View attachment "0001-e2scrub-check-to-make-sure-lvm2-is-installed.patch" of type "text/x-diff" (2668 bytes) View attachment "0002-debian-drop-lvm2-from-the-recommends-line.patch" of type "text/x-diff" (1030 bytes)
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