Split out e2fsprogs sublibraries

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:34:14PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I would like to propose that e2fsprogs generate four subpackages for
> the independent libraries that it contains.  These four libraries are
> used by other packages that don't need the whole of e2fsprogs-devel
> (eg. krb5_workstation uses libss, qpid uses libuuid, and many programs
> use libcom_err).
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225406#c7

Eric, now that F-12 has been branched in the Fedora repositories, is
it a good time to look again at splitting out the libraries from
e2fsprogs?

I have CC'd this email to f-d-l.

Rich.

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