From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12549 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2004 15:59:39 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 24 Aug 2004 15:59:39 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bzdhy-0004Tg-Pa for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:59:38 +0000 Received: (qmail 32181 invoked by uid 89); 24 Aug 2004 15:59:38 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 9885 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2004 15:59:38 +0000 Message-ID: <412B65F7.40602@techmonkeys.org> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:59:51 -0400 From: Will Buckner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040812) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <4129F56D.6020701@butsugenjitemple.org> <200408231521.02247.stuart@gentoo.org> <412A0EFB.2030603@gentoo.org> <200408241730.07304.pauldv@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200408241730.07304.pauldv@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on techmonkeys.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness X-Archives-Salt: 704db53d-d805-4dfb-b925-1da361500db1 X-Archives-Hash: ab24c0b5d2c3557c1d9b45b104cb99e8 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list