[OpenIndiana-discuss] Ext 2 Support

[Gordon Miller]

First of all, the ext2 stuff is only available on the old deprecated SFE 
repo at

http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe

and not the new SFE repoat

http://sfe.opencsw.org/localhostoih

there is a reason for that. The reason being that the packages are all 
several years old and unmaintained.

Anyways the issue is this:

you can install system/file-system/fuse-ext2 no problem. But when you 
try to install the userland progs, system/file-system/e2fsprogs,

you get dependency problems because of conflicting versions and contents 
involving

/usr/bin/uuidgen from e2fsprogs which is also in SUNWcs, along with man 
page &etc
/usr/gnu/include/iconv.h from libiconv which is also in gnu-libiconv, 
along with others

Clearly I can switch out the newer packages, and install the old ones, 
which are strict dependencies.
But doing this breaks other packages that depend on thenewer ones.

This is known as Dependency Hell, and what is needed is new versions of 
e2fsprogs (and prolly many others) or just forget the whole thing and 
switch to another OS, where I don't have to explain the simplest thing 
to people who are clearly ignorant of the current state of play.