On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de> wrote:
Am Sonntag 01 August 2010 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010
16:46:33 +0200
Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de> wrote:
I don't
Am Sonntag 01 August 2010 schrieb Dan McGee: think that nilfs-utils should be moved to the base group. I
agree with
moving it to [core] but not to base, because base is
assumed to be
installed on every computer and packages in the base
group are usually
not listed in the depends array of a PKGBUILD.
On the contrary I
think there could be some other file system tools
like jfsutils, lvm2
and xfsprogs be removed from the base group (not
from
[core]).
I
think this explanation makes sense. I just found this back:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Base_Cleanup
So
indeed, it
seems like the goal is to remove all non-essential
things
(reiserfs, xfs,
..) from base.
They
probably should be automatically installed if a
partition is
formatted with one of these filesystems by AIF. But usually
people who
are using these filesystems know what they are doing
and know
that
they have to select these packages for
installation.
Actually
it's fairly trivial to "preselect" those packagas based on the
filesystems
used during the filesystem step. I believe some of it is
already
implemented in aif.
Dieter
My 2 cents about nilfs,
archboot environment some time ago. To integrate it into an installer it is plain not usable, because the kernel doesn't know it. All usual filesystem utilities like blkid etc. don't recognize it. Sure it will be an optional filesystem in
I have added it to the future, but it should be supported by the kernel and
major filesystem and core utiltities in a sane way.
Except that I've seen it running on his root partition on a booting laptop without any of these problems you speak of...
-Dan Yes sure i believe it works, my concerns are more that the main tools just don't support it, which makes it imho more complicated to implement the installation support.
greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org