FS#29965 - [gnome-disk-utility] dosfstools should be a dependency of gnome-disks
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Opened by fabio (fabioamd) - Monday, 21 May 2012, 12:50 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 11:00 GMT
Opened by fabio (fabioamd) - Monday, 21 May 2012, 12:50 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 11:00 GMT
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Description:
if dosfstools is not installed we can't format pendrives with gnome-disks it should be a dependency of that package |
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Closed by Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 11:00 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Added optdepends to udisks2.
Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 11:00 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Added optdepends to udisks2.
Error creating file system: Cannot run mkfs: cannot spawn 'mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdc': Failed to execute child process "mkfs.vfat" (No such file or directory)
means: install dosfstools.
Should we add an optional dependency for all of them? Dosfstools might make sense because it isn't in base and quite common.
If the upstream developer intended for a package to be dependency, it should be in 'depends' array and NOT 'optdepends' even if it is not linked against/called.
if it is not intended by upstream developers to be a dependency, it should not be in 'depends' or optdepends'. It should be in some 'recommended' list.