Re: [PATCH] obsolete libcom-err for SuSE e2fsprogs

Re: [PATCH] obsolete libcom-err for SuSE e2fsprogs

[Eric Sandeen]

Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:25:39AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
>>> Nope, there isn't much rationale unless we also split out fsck, so
>>  util-linux-ng is open for fsck :-)
> 
> It's something I'm considering, but at the moment I've got some higher
> priority (ext4) work that I'm focusing on.  
> 
> What would you think about moving libblkid and the libdisk from
> xfsprogs into util-linux-ng?  That's things that I've been batting
> around doing, although that means we end up moving more libraries that
> distros would probably want separated into different packages into
> util-linux-ng....

Heh, sounds a little like a prisoner exchange... "we'll give up libblkid
& libcom_err if you give up libdisk" :)

Seriously, though, that all sounds like a pretty good idea to me,
especially since e2fsprogs has been making noise about utilizing some of
the functionality in xfsprogs (stripe discovery etc).

-Eric