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

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Message #19 received at 39332-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Brice Waegeneire <brice <at> waegenei.re>
Cc: 39332-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#39332] [PATCH] system: Add btrfs-progs to %BASE-PACKAGES.
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 19:21:45 -0500

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:19:18AM +0000, Brice Waegeneire wrote:
> 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.

You're right, that's a much better idea!

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