[oe] e2fsprogs util-linux-ng dependency

pieterg pieterg at gmx.com
Sat Jan 22 11:06:32 UTC 2011


in http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/recipes/e2fsprogs?h=org.openembedded.dev&id=ef73bcd899aaf182fb596e5912c20f966e0e6951
a util-linux-ng RDEPENDS was added to e2fsprogs.
But, the comment suggests that only util-linux-ng-blkid would be needed:

> # blkid used to be part of e2fsprogs but is useful outside, add it
> # as an RDEPENDS_${PN} so that anything relying on it being in e2fsprogs
> # still works
> RDEPENDS_e2fsprogs = "util-linux-ng e2fsprogs-badblocks"

util-linux-ng itself does not contain blkid, but a lot of unrelated utils
However, it RDEPENDS on other util-linux-ng- packages, among which util-linux-ng-blkid.
So eventually also util-linux-ng-blkid is installed.
But I'm wondering whether it was not intended to just RDEPEND on util-linux-ng-blkid, so we can avoid dragging in a large number of unrelated utils?

Rgds, Pieter




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