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From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:10:14
Message-Id: 47B394F1.2090902@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge? by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote:
3 >
4 >>> attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file systems,
5 >>> used by selinux and posix capabilities. If you use these features,
6 >>> you already are aware of it.
7 >>>
8 >> So, if I use reiserfs w/o ext attrs (option in kernel), I don't need
9 >> it probably. Correct?
10 >>
11 >
12 > You certainly don't need it, as attr doesn't support reiser. I'm looking
13 > at my own reiser-based machine and wondering why on earth I ever merged
14 > it myself
15 >
16 >
17
18 I have attr on here as well. This is what equery says:
19
20 root@smoker / # equery depends attr
21 [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ]
22 app-backup/dar-2.2.6 (acl? sys-apps/attr)
23 gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.20.1-r1 (acl? sys-apps/attr)
24 sys-apps/acl-2.2.45 (>=sys-apps/attr-2.4)
25 sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 (xattr? sys-apps/attr)
26 root@smoker / #
27
28 Seems like a few packages depend on it here. OP, have you had any of
29 these installed at some point?
30
31 Dale
32
33 :-) :-)
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Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge? Sergey Kobzar <tod.zullu@×××××.com>