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[PATCH] system: Add btrfs-progs to %BASE-PACKAGES.

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Message #14 received at 39332 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Brice Waegeneire <brice <at> waegenei.re>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 39332 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier <at> web.de>,
 Guix-patches <guix-patches-bounces+brice+lists=waegenei.re <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [bug#39332] [PATCH] system: Add btrfs-progs to %BASE-PACKAGES.
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 11:19:18 +0000

On 2020-01-28 23:14, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:42:16PM +0100, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote:
>> This adds btrfs-progs, zstd and lzo to the closure with a total of
>> 7.7MiB. So that doesn't seem to big. I'm just wondering if we need 
>> btrfs
>> support here at all, as I would call btrfs still kind of exotic apart
>> from *SUSE distros and Facebook's backend.
> 
> Yeah, maybe it is too niche. I use it on all my machines but that's 
> just
> me. Let's wait to see if there are more comments before deciding.

Maybe %base-packages is the wrong place to add it. But it should at 
least be added to the system profile if a file-systems entry uses btrfs 
which isn't the case as I recall.

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