Re: [gentoo-dev] Need help with sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.11 build failure

[Lars Wendler]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:12:17 -0400 Mike Gilbert wrote:

>On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
>wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Lars Wendler
>> <polynomial-c@g.o> 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.
>

I think vapier could shed some light on this.

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Lars Wendler
Gentoo package maintainer
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