From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JuBUe-0006hj-Js for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 19:09:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E579E05AE; Thu, 8 May 2008 19:09:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amun.cheops.ods.org (amun.cheops.ods.org [82.95.138.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8867E05AE for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 19:09:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tefnut.cheops.ods.org ([2001:888:1022:0:211:24ff:fe37:e46e] helo=gentoo.org) by amun.cheops.ods.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JuBUb-0007lf-7l for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 21:09:26 +0200 Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 21:09:07 +0200 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage Message-ID: <20080508190907.GL16108@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1210166592.19574.10.camel@localhost> <20080507133430.GI15536@gentoo.org> <1210272301.26658.6.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1210272301.26658.6.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (Darwin 8.11.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 7.1) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Content-Scanned: by amun.cheops.ods.org (Exim Exiscan) using SpamAssassin and ClamAV X-Archives-Salt: 44203aa5-71a3-4df9-87d1-c1a60e99d65e X-Archives-Hash: 5da8a774175ff60daacde0c02b836e3a On 08-05-2008 21:45:00 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > d) too early adoption in critical system packages - once above issues > are solved, higher levels should be using it first, before critical > system packages (for example shows in the circular dep hell with m4) been there, done that. > e) It has been suggested the support should have been added with new > EAPI instead of local build deps (some of which are missing, for > instance in the hand-rolled for-no-reason-whatsoever .tar.lzma format > net-tools doesn't have a dep in addition to using lzma for no good > reason) Chill, relax and cool down. Instead, just ask those who decided to follow upstream why and if they have even thought about the issues you brought up. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list