[oe] Proposal to remove libattr recipe

Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz at sigma-chemnitz.de
Thu Jun 17 13:02:04 UTC 2010


Henning Heinold <heinold at inf.fu-berlin.de> writes:

> the libattr from xfsprogs clashes with the attr recipe from udev and I
> can find any recipe which uses libattr, besides libcap2 which could
> use attr from udev too. So my proposal is to remove the libattr recipe
> and switch libcap2 to use attr from udev.

Because 'xfs' is upstream for attr + acl it would be probably better to
do the opposite thing (remove these general libraries from udev/ and
update the xfsprogs/ version).  Or, remove both versions and move the
best one into toplevel /attr + /acl.


Enrico




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