[gentoo-dev] Removal of e2fsprogs from profiles

[gentoo-dev] Removal of e2fsprogs from profiles

[Michiel de Bruijne]

If I understand it correctly the profiles are used to define the minimum 
requirements to install and maintain a Gentoo machine. If that's a correct 
assumption I wonder why e2fsprogs is part of the profiles. I maintain a lot 
of machines and none of them contains a EXT2- or EXT3-partition.

Why not treat EXT2 and EXT3 the same as every other filesystem and remove it 
from the profiles and mention it in the documentation for example see 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9#doc_chap4

Please keep this on topic and don't start a flame about a mandatory EXT2 
boot-partition, because other filesystems are not stable enough. This may be 
true for some filesystems but not for all filesystems.

How do I proceed? Create a bugzilla-entry for this?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of e2fsprogs from profiles

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 08:46 am, Michiel de Bruijne wrote:
> Why not treat EXT2 and EXT3 the same as every other filesystem and remove
> it from the profiles and mention it in the documentation for example see
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9#doc_ch
>ap4

e2fsprogs contains a more than 'just' support for ext partitions

it provides some core libraries/binaries (like 'fsck')

> How do I proceed? Create a bugzilla-entry for this?

you dont, it wont be removed because it's not just ext2 ;)
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of e2fsprogs from profiles

[Michiel de Bruijne]

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 15:16, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> you dont, it wont be removed because it's not just ext2 ;)
> -mike

Ok, thanks for clearing that up.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of e2fsprogs from profiles

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:46:02 +0100 Michiel de Bruijne
<m.debruijne@hccnet.nl> wrote:
| Please keep this on topic and don't start a flame about a mandatory
| EXT2 boot-partition, because other filesystems are not stable enough.
| This may be true for some filesystems but not for all filesystems.

Can I start a flame about being x86-centric again? 'Cos, ya know,
they're always fun...

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of e2fsprogs from profiles

[Lance Albertson]

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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:46:02 +0100 Michiel de Bruijne
> <m.debruijne@hccnet.nl> wrote:
> | Please keep this on topic and don't start a flame about a mandatory
> | EXT2 boot-partition, because other filesystems are not stable enough.
> | This may be true for some filesystems but not for all filesystems.
> 
> Can I start a flame about being x86-centric again? 'Cos, ya know,
> they're always fun...

Only if we can flame about emacs! oohh! And don't forget about MTA wars! rawr

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of e2fsprogs from profiles

[Michiel de Bruijne]

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 16:17, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Can I start a flame about being x86-centric again? 'Cos, ya know,
> they're always fun...
LOL, well I can promise you one thing; if you donate me a Sun Blade 2500 
workstation I will never be x86-centric again. Deal?

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