Bug#379340: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#379340: inappropriate dependency on e2fsprogs

Mon Sep 11 11:45:33 UTC 2006

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Aug 02, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Initscripts depends on /sbin/fsck.
> I wonder how you came to this conclusion. I purged e2fsprogs and then
> configured my system to not use fsck[1] and everything works fine.
> 
> [1] by setting FSCKTYPES=none in /etc/default/rcS and 0 in fstab

Yes, that would cripple it into not needing e2fsprogs, all right...

However, not doing any fsck at all is not the right solution.  Removing the
fsck wrapper from e2fsprogs would be the correct one.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh