Now that /sbin/fsck is provided by util-linux it should be possible to
drop the Essential attribute from the e2fsprogs. How do we do this?

e2fsprogs is not needed when the system uses other file systems or does
not have its own (e.g. openvz and lxc containers) and removing it would
save a few MB.

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ciao,
Marco

Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Now that /sbin/fsck is provided by util-linux it should be possible to
> drop the Essential attribute from the e2fsprogs. How do we do this?

The whole archive needs to be scanned to see if no functionality of
e2fsprogs is used without (build) dependency. Dropping the flag itself
is just uploading e2fsprogs AFAICS.

Cheers

Luk


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Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Now that /sbin/fsck is provided by util-linux it should be possible to
> drop the Essential attribute from the e2fsprogs. How do we do this?

Does that also mean initscripts will be dropping its dependency on
e2fsprogs?

Also, what new priority should it get?
Debian Installer already ensures e2fsprogs gets installed if ext[234] are
used, so from that PoV there's no problem.

Cheers,
FJP


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On Sunday 07 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
> Does that also mean initscripts will be dropping its dependency on
> e2fsprogs?

Just see it's already been lowered to recommends (I had an older version of
initscripts installed).


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On Feb 07, Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> wrote:

> The whole archive needs to be scanned to see if no functionality of
> e2fsprogs is used without (build) dependency.
So, how can this be done?

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Marco