Bug 300620

Summary:	sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility should depend on sys-fs/dosfstools
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) <plaes>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	xmw
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.