On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:12:17 -0400 Mike Gilbert wrote: >On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Mike Gilbert >wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Lars Wendler >> 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. -- Lars Wendler Gentoo package maintainer GPG: 4DD8 C47C CDFA 5295 E1A6 3FC8 F696 74AB 981C A6FC