[oe] e2fsprogs util-linux-ng dependency

[Khem Raj]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 3:06 AM, pieterg <pieterg at gmx.com> wrote:
> 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?


hmmm good point. I think it should just rdep for things which its
missing or needs to run
its own provided programs at runtime

>
> Rgds, Pieter
>
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