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List:       util-linux-ng
Subject:    Re: Bug#785116: util-linux: blkid -s returns too much information
From:       Andreas Henriksson <andreas () fatal ! se>
Date:       2015-05-15 9:35:38
Message-ID: 20150515093538.GC12181 () fatal ! se
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Hello!

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 06:50:52AM +0930, Ron wrote:
[...]
> Yeah, I completely sympathise with the pain in that line of thinking.
> I guess the question for me would be is there really any use case
> where someone might actually be relying on this (mis)behaviour?
> One where they aren't already explicitly passing -s DEVNAME as one
> of the tags they want exported (which really is what you should be
> doing if that's what you want).
[...]

I'm willing to bet that noone explicitly uses "-s DEVNAME" already, as
that simply does not work (because DEVNAME is not a tag).

Hacking the code to make DEVNAME a tag looked trivial to me but changing
things (again) will be risk ending up in a neverending back-and-forth
dance between people wanting/relying on different behaviours. Thats
why I wanted to ask for input from upstream as soon as possible in
this matter, even before producing the patch.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
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