Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness

[Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@butsugenjitemple.org>]

Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> 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).
> 
> Paul
> 

Was there a final verdict on this?

The two possible solutions mentioned in this thread:

1) add gzip (and others) as a portage run-time dep
2) change all DEPEND's containing app-arch/gzip to virtual/gzip

Regards
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