Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-08 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Mittwoch 08 Dezember 2010 schrieb Heiko Baums: > Am Wed, 8 Dec 2010 08:56:24 -0500 > > schrieb Dave Reisner : > > 3) use Archboot, which supports a wider range of packages. > > But Archboot has some other disadvantages. It's not as flexible as > Archiso and doesn't give me as many options as A

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-08 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 8 Dec 2010 08:56:24 -0500 schrieb Dave Reisner : > 3) use Archboot, which supports a wider range of packages. But Archboot has some other disadvantages. It's not as flexible as Archiso and doesn't give me as many options as Archiso, e.g. I can't change or control the cryptsetup options an

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-08 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 8 Dec 2010 08:56:24 -0500 schrieb Dave Reisner : > I highly doubt that this was _ever_ a question of size in the repos. > More likely, It's a matter of time vs. gain for a small number of > volunteers. If you're a user who knows that they want a particular > exotic filesystem that isn't wi

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 08:56:24 -0500 Dave Reisner wrote: > I highly doubt that this was _ever_ a question of size in the repos. > More likely, It's a matter of time vs. gain for a small number of > volunteers. If you're a user who knows that they want a particular > exotic filesystem that isn't wide

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-08 Thread Dave Reisner
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:18:20AM -0200, Armando M. Baratti wrote: > Em 08-12-2010 09:57, Heiko Baums escreveu: > >Am Tue, 7 Dec 2010 23:25:06 -0500 > >schrieb Loui Chang: > > > >So those packages are affected: > >e2fsprogs > >reiserfsprogs > >btrfs-progs(-unstable) > >nilfs-utils > >jfsutils > >x

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-08 Thread Armando M. Baratti
Em 08-12-2010 09:57, Heiko Baums escreveu: Am Tue, 7 Dec 2010 23:25:06 -0500 schrieb Loui Chang: So those packages are affected: e2fsprogs reiserfsprogs btrfs-progs(-unstable) nilfs-utils jfsutils xfsprogs nfs-utils package files

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-08 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 7 Dec 2010 23:45:50 -0500 schrieb Loui Chang : > Ask Microsoft to support every filesystem in existence on their > standard install CD and core system and maybe us poor Archers with > our limited time and budget can also rise to your stratospheric > expectations. Microsoft has only two fi

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-08 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 7 Dec 2010 23:25:06 -0500 schrieb Loui Chang : > I'm not so sure about that. There are probably more filesystems than I > can imagine. I wouldn't be too thrilled if all of that was in core. I only mean Linux filesystems which can be used for installing Linux, whether they are or can be us

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-07 Thread Attila
At Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2010 05:45 Loui Chang wrote: > Ask Microsoft to support every filesystem in existence on their standard > install CD and core system and maybe us poor Archers with our limited > time and budget can also rise to your stratospheric expectations. Bad example because MS offer

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 07 Dec 2010 18:30 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:26:00 +0100 > schrieb Pierre Schmitz : > > > I second this. If the reason for moving a package to core is that the > > installer cannot handle it otherwise the installer needs to be fixed. > > The question is not that the

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 07 Dec 2010 20:12 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Tue, 7 Dec 2010 19:12:05 +0100 > schrieb Tobias Powalowski : > > > This is a proper solution without making core a big monster again. > > greetings > > Adding all filesystem tools to [core] won't make it a big monster. ;-) I'm not so sure a

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-07 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 7 Dec 2010 19:12:05 +0100 schrieb Tobias Powalowski : > This is a proper solution without making core a big monster again. > greetings Adding all filesystem tools to [core] won't make it a big monster. ;-) Heiko

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-07 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Dienstag 07 Dezember 2010 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: > On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:30:03 +0100 > > Heiko Baums wrote: > > Also the netinstall iso can only install from [core] as > > far as I know. > > not entirely correct, but that would be off-topic. > > > But on the other hand every filesystem re

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:30:03 +0100 Heiko Baums wrote: > Also the netinstall iso can only install from [core] as > far as I know. not entirely correct, but that would be off-topic. > But on the other hand every filesystem related package has to be > removed from (base), while AIF should then be a

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-07 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:26:00 +0100 schrieb Pierre Schmitz : > I second this. If the reason for moving a package to core is that the > installer cannot handle it otherwise the installer needs to be fixed. The question is not that the installer can't handle it if it's not in [core]. The question is