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From: "Santiago M. Mola" <coldwind@gentoo.org>
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On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>  > 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.
>

Note that we're also speaking about downstream lzma archives. Like in
sys-apps/net-tools, where lzma hasn't been adopted even by upstream.

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