Re: [gentoo-dev] reason for dhcpcd in system profile ?

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org>]

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On Monday 25 August 2003 04:46 am, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 04:18, Luke-Jr wrote:
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> > On Sunday 24 August 2003 08:15 am, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > > Man pages is an integrate part of a system in my opinion - how anyhow
> > > are you going to tell them to RTFM if not there :P
> >
> > Have the install manual suggest installation of them.
>
> O.K.
>
> > > > ext2/ext3 are still considered Linux native, so that may be
> > > > justification for their inclusion in system, if not for the fact that
> > > > reiserfs is a bad idea for a /boot partition... I wouldn't have any
> > > > objection to their removal from system, though.
> > >
> > > e2fsprogs provide /sbin/fsck ... 8)
> >
> > fsck, unless I'm mistaken, merely detects the filesystem and runs
> > fsck.{ext3,xfs,reiserfs,etc}. It could probably be provided by all
> > packages which provide a fsck, or baselayout.
>
> Ok, and who wants to bloat now ?  I have diff filesystems on diff
> partition depending on what it is used for (and I bet I am not the
> only one).
>
> I also guess you are going to rip fsck, or code a new one, and maintain
> it for all ...
fsck is merely a redirector to the proper fsck.* program. There's no real 
reason it needs to be provided by a specific filesystem's package.
- -- 
Luke-Jr
Developer, Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org/
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