Re: e2fsprogs as Essential: yes?
On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 05:01:41PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 01:29:54AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > At least the following are universal:
> > lsattr, chattr
> > badblocks
> > filefrag
>
> If e2fsprogs goes non-essential I'd rather see a new package for the
> filesystem-indpendent parts than have random packages depending on
> "ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilities" because they want chattr.
+1. I guess this is a good point for the MBF Helmut wants to do.
shlib dependencies are:
* lsattr, chattr, badblocks:
• e2fslibs
• libcomerr2
• libblkid1
• libuuid1
* filefrag
• libblkid1
• libuuid1
Of these, libblkid1 and libuuid1 are transitively essential; libcomerr2
(87.0 kB inst) is very popular: no rdeps above priority:standard but you'll
have a hard time finding an useful system without one of those rdeps;
this leaves e2fslibs (466 kB inst) whose other users are mc and a handful
of less-used packages.
Current e2fsprogs is 1340 kB inst + libss2 (99.3 kB inst).
On the other hand, looking at unstable-capable physical machines I own or
admin, despite none of them using ext4 for actual system or data, every
single one has ext4 for u-boot, /boot or often sees SD cards from some SoC,
thus I personally would benefit only on containers.
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