I ran into an issue on first use: sudo multios-usb /dev/sdc exits immediately with:
mkfs.fat is required but not installed. Exiting
mkfs.fat is provided by dosfstools, which is currently listed only as an optional dependency ("FAT support"). The catch is that fat32 is the default--fs_type, so the package is unusable out of the box (without passing any extra flag) unless dosfstools is installed.
Would it make sense to promote dosfstools to a hard dependency (depends)? The other filesystem tools (e2fsprogs, exfatprogs, ntfs-3g) make perfect sense as optdepends, since they're only needed when their filesystem is explicitly selected — but dosfstools is required for the default behavior.
Thanks!
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Hi, and thanks for maintaining this package.
I ran into an issue on first use:
sudo multios-usb /dev/sdcexits immediately with:mkfs.fatis provided bydosfstools, which is currently listed only as an optional dependency ("FAT support"). The catch is thatfat32is the default--fs_type, so the package is unusable out of the box (without passing any extra flag) unlessdosfstoolsis installed.Would it make sense to promote
dosfstoolsto a hard dependency (depends)? The other filesystem tools (e2fsprogs,exfatprogs,ntfs-3g) make perfect sense as optdepends, since they're only needed when their filesystem is explicitly selected — butdosfstoolsis required for the default behavior.Thanks!