300620 – sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility should depend on sys-fs/dosfstools

Bug 300620 - sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility should depend on sys-fs/dosfstools

Summary: sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility should depend on sys-fs/dosfstools

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team

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Reported:	2010-01-11 20:13 UTC by Priit Laes (IRC: plaes)
Modified:	2010-06-13 17:04 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) 2010-01-11 20:13:53 UTC

I tried to format the USB flash disk as FAT filesystem using palimpsest (that belongs to gnome-disk-utility package), but it only gave me unhelpful error saying that it was unable to execute mkfs.vfat process.

After installing sys-fs/dosfstools everything went a bit smoother ;)

Comment 1 Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-31 15:52:58 UTC

I would handle this with an use flag. Not everybody want's to have dosfstools installed. Is there a meaningful use-flag you would suggest?

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2010-06-13 17:04:48 UTC

+*gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1 (13 Jun 2010)
+
+  13 Jun 2010; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
+  +gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1.ebuild, metadata.xml:
+  Add new version for Gnome 2.30. Also fix bug #300620 (thanks to Priit Laes
+  for reporting) adding a 'fat' USE flag like sys-block/gparted.