Hi Dale, Thursday, February 14, 2008, 3:10:09 AM, you wrote:
> Alan McKinnon 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 >> >> > I have attr on here as well. This is what equery says: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery depends attr > [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ] > app-backup/dar-2.2.6 (acl? sys-apps/attr) > gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.20.1-r1 (acl? sys-apps/attr) > sys-apps/acl-2.2.45 (>=sys-apps/attr-2.4) > sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 (xattr? sys-apps/attr) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # > Seems like a few packages depend on it here. OP, have you had any of > these installed at some point? In my system only one package which requires attr is sys-apps/coreutils. But because acl support is disabled, it does not need attr too. > Dale > :-) :-) -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
