From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages. Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 15:06:47 +0100 Message-ID: <20161113140647.GA10548@jocasta.intra> References: <1478812461-18483-1-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> <87wpg8lpfc.fsf@gnu.org> <20161112152808.GA21994@jocasta.intra> <20161112170948.GA23070@jocasta.intra> <874m3cjoku.fsf@gnu.org> <20161113082110.GA6656@jocasta.intra> <877f87io95.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46151) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5vQt-0005gu-SE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 09:06:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5vQs-00069w-Rj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 09:06:55 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877f87io95.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic Court??s Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:59:50PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: John Darrington skribis: =20 > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:55:13PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: =20 [...] =20 > > Also, it would only work if nfs-utils was installed in the cu= rrent system profile, > > which need not be the case. It might be installed only in ro= ot's profile or I might=20 > > want to see what happens if I use an alternative version of n= fs-utils. > =20 > That ???mount??? can invoke ???mount.nfs??? looks like a conven= ience to me, not > something highly critical. > > Well it's critical if "mount -a" is going to work, and thus if NFS f= ilesystems (such as /home in > many networks) can be automatically mounted at boot time. =20 GuixSD doesn???t use the ???mount??? command to mount file systems so = that shouldn???t have any influence. What does it use instead? =20 1,093 packages depend on util-linux. Per the strategy outlined at this could go to ???staging??? but I think this should go to ???core-u= pdates??? which we???ll reopen to fix . I'm irritated that util-linux has so many, completely unrelated things in i= t. For example it contains the "mount", "cal" and "col" commands. Regardless of the NFS= issues, I=20 suggest we consider separating it anyway, into several packages all derivin= g from the common source. =20 J' --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlgoc3cACgkQimdxnC3oJ7NVPQCfdKI+rlbP3pGatsxPbfwzLc/5 jOgAoIfO1tbDIssbemHoAlOaI9IHXkv0 =AGN/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm--