From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29912 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2004 12:55:40 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 7 Sep 2004 12:55:40 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C4fVb-0008OR-Q1 for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:55:39 +0000 Received: (qmail 15078 invoked by uid 89); 7 Sep 2004 12:55:39 +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 29274 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2004 12:55:38 +0000 Message-ID: <413DAFC6.2090107@butsugenjitemple.org> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 08:55:34 -0400 From: Aaron Walker User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040826) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev 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> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness X-Archives-Salt: 1542bee4-da3b-4715-ba05-c593626283ef X-Archives-Hash: a9a43f04714fe30aa7af3cd56c6d5cdc 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 -- Tact, n.: The unsaid part of what you're thinking. /* Aaron Walker * http://butsugenjitemple.org/~ka0ttic/ */ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list