On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 12:52 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote: > I'm looking at updating hal, which needs the new libblkid that is > included in util-linux. This library replaces the one inside e2fsprogs. > Now we have some nice dependency loop: > > e2fsprogs contains libuuid > e2fsprogs depends on libblkid > libblkid depends on libuuid (optional, but default) >
Yay for keeping up2date... two weeks ago, there was a new release of util-linux-ng with this in the releasenotes: libuuid, uuidgen(1) and uuidd(8): - the libuuid library has been moved from e2fsprogs to util-linux-ng This solves all issues and makes it possible to update without problems :)

