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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:30:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408241730.07304.pauldv@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412A0EFB.2030603@gentoo.org>

On Monday 23 August 2004 17:36, Lina Pezzella wrote:
> I would entirely agree on the second point there.  System for macos has
> very few things installed (gzip not among them) because a lot is
> provided by MacOS.  At this point in the game, where we are porting
> Gentoo to non-Linux userlands, it is probably a bad idea to "assume"
> much of anything.

I think gzip, tar, unzip and bzip2 should be runtime dependencies of portage 
itself. Portage needs them to unpack almost all packages. It would be hell if 
we would need to add any of them as a dependency just because of the fact 
that the package is offered in a tarball of some sort (most packages are).

Paul

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-24 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-23 13:47 [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness Aaron Walker
2004-08-23 14:02 ` Aaron Walker
2004-08-23 14:09 ` Chris Gianelloni
2004-08-23 14:20   ` Stuart Herbert
2004-08-23 15:36     ` Lina Pezzella
2004-08-23 17:54       ` Chris Gianelloni
2004-08-23 18:26         ` Lina Pezzella
2004-08-24 15:30       ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]
2004-08-24 15:59         ` Will Buckner
2004-09-07 12:55         ` Aaron Walker
2004-08-23 14:28   ` Chris Gianelloni

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