[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: lzma tarball usage

[Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 07 May 2008 16:23:12 +0300
Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Over the course of this year, a lzma-utils buildtime dependency has
> been added to a few system packages, to handle .tar.lzma tarballs.
> This has huge implications on the requirement of the system toolchain,
> which is highly disturbing from a minimal (lets say embedded) systems
> concern - lzma-utils depends on the C++ compiler and the libstdc++
> beast, while a minimal system would like to avoid this at all cost.

The new lzma-utils codebase uses liblzma, written in C.  It's at the
alpha stage but supposedly supports encoding/decoding the current lzma
format "well enough" (;P).  It probably has some fun bugs to find
and squish.

http://sf.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200804251652.58484.lasse.collin%40tukaani.org&forum_name=lzmautils-announce

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