On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:45:45 +0100 Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Am 07.12.2010 14:40, schrieb Ionuț Bîru:
Hi, i come across https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20261 and i see Dieter added support in aif for it but it needs to be added in core to include it on the cd.
That is not true. Packages don't have to be in core to be included in the installation environment.
We (or at least I) meant: including the packages in the included core repo on core images. So that if people install their system on a nilfs filesystem, they can install the nilfs-utils package too. I don't think we want situations where people use a core image, install nilfs, but aif can't install nilfs-utils. On the other hand, I just noticed dosfstools is in extra, whereas aif allows you to install on vfat. This confuses me. Isn't the general rule that if you can install on a foo-filesystem, you should install foo-utils as well? so that at least your system doesn't break when it needs to run fsck.foo after x mounts.
Don't know why nobody assigned that bug to me since i'm the maintainer of nilfs-utils even since it was in community.
What do you think? Is it worth adding it? It must be in base group?
How many people use nilfs? I doubt very many. If you want to add another package to your list that nobody will sign off on, I don't object (even xfsutils and jfsutils rarely get signoffs, and those are popular file systems compared to nilfs).
good point. is jfs really popular? at this point i know very few people who use nilfs, but that should change as it should be a great FS for SSD's. Dieter