[gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness

[Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@butsugenjitemple.org>]

I was discussing this with kloeri and a few other devs in #gentoo-bugs 
this morning and they suggested I post this list here to get everyone's 
opinion.

It looks like seemant added virtual/gzip back in Nov 2003.  Suprisingly, 
grepping the tree reveals 1 (as in ONE) ebuild that actually uses 
virtual/gzip.

Following is a list of packages that either 1) need to have their 
apps-arch/gzip DEPEND changed to virtual/gzip, or 2) depend on gzip but 
do not have it all in any form in DEPEND.

#2 brings up a question that has confused me for a while; if an ebuild 
depends on a package (in this case gzip), which is included as part of 
the base system, is it assumed to exist or should it be added to DEPEND?

I'd be willing to fix most of these myself (provided everyone agrees, of 
course), but I'm still going through my probabtionary period.  If 
everyone agrees, and if I do end up becoming a developer, then I'd be 
more than willing to fix whatever packages haven't been fixed by that time.

So, enough hoopla...

ebuilds that currently DEPEND on app-arch/gzip but should be changed to 
virtual/gzip:

app-admin/aide
app-admin/newsyslog
app-admin/rkhunter
app-arch/guitar
app-arch/hdup
app-arch/ppmd
app-arch/tar
app-cdr/cdlabelgen
app-doc/daemontools-man
app-doc/djbdns-man
app-doc/gimp-user-manual
app-emacs/tamago
app-i18n/manpages-fr
app-i18n/manpages-it
app-i18n/skk-jisyo
app-i18n/skk-jisyo-cdb
dev-db/cdb
dev-util/quilt
mail-filter/amavisd-new
media-sound/soundtracker
net-analyzer/oinkmaster
net-firewall/fwanalog
sys-apps/miscfiles
sys-libs/cracklib
x11-themes/iceicons

ebuilds that currently use gzip explicitly but do not have any kind of 
gzip in DEPEND:

app-arch/unlzx
app-benchmarks/siege
app-doc/howto-text
app-doc/phrack
app-editors/ted
app-emulation/uade
app-i18n/ami
app-misc/emelfm
app-sci/modelsim
app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets
<=dev-lang/ccc-6.5.9.001-r2
dev-lang/cfal
dev-lang/cxx
dev-lang/gpc
dev-lang/squeak-basicimage
dev-lang/squeak-fullimage
dev-libs/ace
dev-libs/libcxml
dev-lisp/cmucl-source
dev-util/examiner
dev-util/ladebug
dev-util/xmingw-gcc
games-fps/lsdldoom
games-mud/tf
games-strategy/liquidwar
mail-client/mutt
media-fonts/artwiz-fonts
media-fonts/baekmuk-fonts
media-fonts/efont-unicode
media-fonts/intlfonts
media-fonts/jisx0213-fonts
media-gfx/feh
media-gfx/xzgv
media-libs/nas
media-tv/xawdecode
net-analyzer/arpwatch
net-irc/ctrlproxy
net-mail/getmail
net-news/slrn
sys-apps/kbd
sys-apps/lkcdutils
sys-apps/powerpc-utils
sys-fs/mac-fdisk
x11-base/xfree
x11-base/xorg-x11
x11-libs/qwt

Cheers
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