Updating udisks: New dependencies (libblockdev, volume-key, dmraid, libbytesize, ndctl...)

[Pierre Neidhardt]

I'm working on updating udisks from the "old legacy" version (which is
currently packaged in Guix) to version 2.7.6.

        https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks

It turns out to be much harder than expected!  Recent versions of udisks
depend on libblockdev, which in turn depends on the 
volume_key, dmraid, libbytesize, ndctl and possibly more, all of which
are not packaged in Guix yet.

What do you think?  Is it worth it?  Any alternative to udisks?

Otherwise I'll go ahead and send a big fat patch set.

--
Pierre Neidhardt

Poorochrondria:
        Hypochrondria derived from not having medical insurance.
                -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
                   Culture"

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