From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1417 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2004 15:31:40 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 24 Aug 2004 15:31:40 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BzdGt-0001YN-Da for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:31:39 +0000 Received: (qmail 14622 invoked by uid 89); 24 Aug 2004 15:31:38 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1728 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2004 15:31:38 +0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:30:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <4129F56D.6020701@butsugenjitemple.org> <200408231521.02247.stuart@gentoo.org> <412A0EFB.2030603@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <412A0EFB.2030603@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408241730.07304.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness X-Archives-Salt: 21551894-a37d-4ac6-b0cc-d7ba99ea54ad X-Archives-Hash: 1d95a6ea7c22f9d2540b28fd73a333e9 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 -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list