On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Lars Wendler <polynomia...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I just add e2fsprogs{,-libs}-1.42.11
>
> Is there some reason that we continue to maintain these as two
> separate packages? It seems like the e2fsprogs ebuild could
> build/install both the binaries and the libraries, and that would
> probably prevent weird failures like this one.
>
> I see this in README.subset:Oops, hit send too quickly. I see this in README.subset: --- This distribution contains a subset of the e2fsprogs package; it contains the base libraries (ss, et, uuid, blkid) which may be used by other non-ext2-related applications. This may be useful for non-Linux operating systems that need these libraries for GNOME, but who do not need the ext2/ext3 filesystem utilities. --- >From what I can tell, e2fsprogs and e2fsprogs-libs have mostly the same KEYWORDS with a couple of exceptions: x86-fbsd x86-freebsd x86-solaris It hardly seems worth the effort to maintain 2 ebuilds for these small platforms.
