Re: [PATCH] part type interface

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> writes:

> > I was thinking this code might be triggered by a user who requested a
> > store_part on the command line to, say, ext2fs.  Is that incorrect?
> 
> If the hurd is compiled without libparted, then the "part" store type will
> be completely absent, and using it on the command line will get the usual
> error you'd get for using some unknown type "frobozz".

Ok, I see where I was confused then.  I think I agree with Roland.  If
the stub must be added, it should be ENOSYS, but even better is to
just have it not added.  

A program which wants store_part_create should have a dependency on
libparted.  If libparted lives in the hurd packages, it should be
always on.  If it's in a different package, then the package
dependency mechanism should be used--just like any other library.