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

[Michael Tokarev]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > [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.

Not doing fsck is perfectly right solution IFF there's nothing to
fsck.  For example, disk-less systems (mounting all filesystems
over NFS or staying entirely on RAM), or virtual systems like
linux-vserver, openvz, etc.

/mjt