Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness

[Will Buckner <wcc@techmonkeys.org>]

on 08/24/04 11:30 Paul de Vrieze said the following:
> On Monday 23 August 2004 17:36, Lina Pezzella wrote:
> 
>>I would entirely agree on the second point there.  System for macos has
>>very few things installed (gzip not among them) because a lot is
>>provided by MacOS.  At this point in the game, where we are porting
>>Gentoo to non-Linux userlands, it is probably a bad idea to "assume"
>>much of anything.
> 
> 
> I think gzip, tar, unzip and bzip2 should be runtime dependencies of portage 
> itself. Portage needs them to unpack almost all packages. It would be hell if 
> we would need to add any of them as a dependency just because of the fact 
> that the package is offered in a tarball of some sort (most packages are).
> 

This makes sense to me as well, since, in reality, it IS a portage 
dependency. It's portage that needs virtual/gzip, etc, to extract the 
package. A package's dependencies should be what the package itself needs to 
compile/run.

> Paul
> 

Wcc

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