On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > > Thanks, Alan! > > > > Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 7:00:51 PM, you wrote: > > > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > > >> > attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file > > >> > systems, used by selinux and posix capabilities. If you use > > >> > these features, you already are aware of it. > > >> > > >> So, if I use reiserfs w/o ext attrs (option in kernel), I don't > > >> need it probably. Correct? > > > > > > You certainly don't need it, as attr doesn't support reiser. I'm > > > looking at my own reiser-based machine and wondering why on earth > > > I ever merged it myself > > # equery depends attr > [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ] > sys-apps/acl-2.2.45 (>=sys-apps/attr-2.4) > sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 (acl? sys-apps/attr)
True, but mine is in world. I probably ran my eye down a list of packages one day and ran 'emerge -av <list of possibly useful stuff>' without putting a whole lot of thought into it -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
