From: orbea <orbea@riseup.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 08:23:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240330082300.33a94b6f@Akita> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9447ba3ca0af0e625fbd02a35c234841affb129.camel@gentoo.org>
On Sat, 30 Mar 2024 16:02:25 +0100
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2024-03-30 at 14:57 +0000, Eddie Chapman wrote:
> > Note, I'm not advocating ripping xz-utils out of tree, all I'm
> > saying is wouldn't it be nice if there were at least 2 alternatives
> > to choose from? That doesn't have to be disruptive in any way,
> > people who wish to continue using and trusting xz-utils should be
> > able to continue to do so without any friction whatsoever.
>
> So, you're basically saying we should go out of our way, recompress
> all distfiles using two alternative compression formats, increase
> mirror load four times and add a lot of complexity to ebuilds, right?
>
How would Gentoo even recompress all .xz distfiles if xz-utils is not
even in the repo? And this will certainly be a reoccurring theme...
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Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-30 3:07 [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo Eddie Chapman
2024-03-30 3:43 ` orbea
2024-03-30 7:06 ` Dale
2024-03-30 10:47 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2024-03-30 11:32 ` [gentoo-dev] " Rich Freeman
2024-03-30 14:57 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-03-30 15:02 ` Michał Górny
2024-03-30 15:17 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-03-30 15:29 ` Michał Górny
2024-03-30 15:59 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-03-30 16:07 ` Dale
2024-03-30 17:13 ` Re[2]: " Stefan Schmiedl
2024-03-30 17:36 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-03-31 1:41 ` Thomas Gall
2024-03-30 23:49 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-03-31 1:36 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-03-30 15:23 ` orbea [this message]
2024-03-30 15:14 ` Rich Freeman
2024-03-30 17:19 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-03-31 1:25 ` Sam James
2024-03-31 1:33 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-03-31 11:13 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-03-31 11:59 ` Matt Jolly
2024-04-01 7:57 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-04-01 14:50 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-04-02 8:43 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-04-02 19:46 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-04-02 20:19 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-04-01 14:55 ` Michał Górny
2024-04-02 9:02 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-04-01 15:14 ` Kenton Groombridge
2024-04-01 15:40 ` orbea
2024-04-01 16:01 ` Kenton Groombridge
2024-04-01 16:21 ` orbea
2024-04-01 18:51 ` Kévin GASPARD DE RENEFORT
2024-04-01 20:07 ` James Le Cuirot
2024-04-02 6:32 ` Joonas Niilola
2024-03-31 11:32 ` stefan11111
2024-04-01 14:56 ` Azamat Hackimov
2024-04-02 19:32 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-04-03 11:47 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2024-04-03 12:14 ` Sam James
2024-04-03 15:30 ` [gentoo-dev] " Eddie Chapman
2024-04-03 16:40 ` Michael Orlitzky
2024-04-04 3:20 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2024-04-04 3:49 ` [gentoo-dev] " Eli Schwartz
2024-04-04 8:32 ` Sam James
2024-04-04 8:34 ` Kévin GASPARD DE RENEFORT
2024-04-04 14:38 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-04-04 14:24 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-04-06 11:57 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-04-06 12:15 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-04-06 12:34 ` Roy Bamford
2024-04-06 14:04 ` Fabian Groffen
2024-04-07 6:44 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-04-06 16:15 ` Sam James
2024-04-07 11:24 ` Eddie Chapman
2024-04-11 5:21 ` Joonas Niilola
2024-04-12 7:18 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2024-04-13 7:10 ` [gentoo-dev] " Eddie Chapman
2024-04-03 12:22 ` [gentoo-dev] " Kévin GASPARD DE RENEFORT
2024-04-03 12:26 ` Kévin GASPARD DE RENEFORT
2024-04-04 1:41 ` Duncan
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