* Re: [PATCH] obsolete libcom-err for SuSE e2fsprogs
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@ 2007-09-24 13:16 ` Eric Sandeen
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From: Eric Sandeen @ 2007-09-24 13:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Theodore Tso
Cc: Karel Zak, Andreas Dilger, linux-ext4, List util-linux-ng,
xfs-oss
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
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