From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: [PATCH] obsolete libcom-err for SuSE e2fsprogs Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:16:41 -0500 Message-ID: <46F7B8B9.4040707@redhat.com> References: <20070919061404.GA1628@schatzie.adilger.int> <46F1CFC0.3070801@redhat.com> <20070920050923.GX32520@schatzie.adilger.int> <46F2D678.4060203@redhat.com> <20070920215427.GL30221@thunk.org> <20070924092539.GC2819@petra.dvoda.cz> <20070924124035.GA4209@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Karel Zak , Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, List util-linux-ng , xfs-oss To: Theodore Tso Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070924124035.GA4209-AKGzg7BKzIDYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org> Sender: util-linux-ng-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:25:39AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: >>> Nope, there isn't much rationale unless we also split out fsck, so >> util-linux-ng is open for fsck :-) > > It's something I'm considering, but at the moment I've got some higher > priority (ext4) work that I'm focusing on. > > What would you think about moving libblkid and the libdisk from > xfsprogs into util-linux-ng? That's things that I've been batting > around doing, although that means we end up moving more libraries that > distros would probably want separated into different packages into > util-linux-ng.... Heh, sounds a little like a prisoner exchange... "we'll give up libblkid & libcom_err if you give up libdisk" :) Seriously, though, that all sounds like a pretty good idea to me, especially since e2fsprogs has been making noise about utilizing some of the functionality in xfsprogs (stripe discovery etc). -Eric