Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages.

[John Darrington]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:59:50PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
     John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
     
     > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:55:13PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
     
     [...]
     
     >      > Also, it would only work if nfs-utils was installed in the 
current system profile,
     >      > which need not be the case.  It might be installed only in root's 
profile or I might 
     >      > want to see what happens if I use an alternative version of 
nfs-utils.
     >      
     >      That ???mount??? can invoke ???mount.nfs??? looks like a 
convenience to me, not
     >      something highly critical.
     >
     > Well it's critical if "mount -a" is going to work, and thus if NFS 
filesystems (such as /home in
     > many networks) can be automatically mounted at boot time.
     
     GuixSD doesn???t use the ???mount??? command to mount file systems so that
     shouldn???t have any influence.

What does it use instead?
     
     1,093 packages depend on util-linux.  Per the strategy outlined at
     <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-10/msg00933.html>
     this could go to ???staging??? but I think this should go to 
???core-updates???
     which we???ll reopen to fix <http://bugs.gnu.org/24703>.

I'm irritated that util-linux has so many, completely unrelated things in it.  
For example
it contains the "mount", "cal" and "col" commands.    Regardless of the NFS 
issues, I 
suggest we consider separating it anyway, into several packages all deriving 
from the common
source.
     

J'

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