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From: Richard Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 16:01:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48220A85.6040809@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080507183815.GA11765@nibiru.local>

Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> I think, as long as there is no really minimal lzmadec available
> yet (as standalone package), we should more standard compressors
> like gzip or bzip2. Adding that whole bunch of deps just to 
> save a few bytes IMHO isn't worth it.

Keep in mind that this might mean doing our own repackaging of upstream 
if they don't have a supported option.  I think the only other option 
would be to create an "lzmalite" package or something like that which 
simply contains the decompressor in ordinary C.  You could really turn 
that into a separate package like gentoolkit or whatever - I wouldn't 
actually embed the code into portage since that isn't the unix way and 
it just forced other package managers (and other distros) to do the same 
thing.  An lzmalite package could have a life of its own and as a result 
benefit from fewer bugs/etc.

But, I'm not going to be the one writing the thing, so feel free to not 
listen to any of this...  :)
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-07 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-07 13:23 [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage Mart Raudsepp
2008-05-07 13:34 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-05-08 18:45   ` Mart Raudsepp
2008-05-08 19:09     ` Fabian Groffen
2008-05-08 19:17       ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-05-08 19:21       ` Mart Raudsepp
2008-05-17 15:55     ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-10  7:32   ` Mike Frysinger
2008-05-10  7:36     ` Fabian Groffen
2008-05-10  9:57       ` Mike Frysinger
2008-05-07 14:12 ` Natanael Copa
2008-05-07 14:55   ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-05-08  8:06     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-05-08 10:49       ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-05-08 10:59         ` Graham Murray
2008-05-08 11:31           ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-05-08 11:41         ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-05-07 14:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Benedikt Morbach
2008-05-07 15:03   ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-05-07 15:02 ` Benedikt Morbach
2008-05-07 16:06 ` Chris Gianelloni
2008-05-07 18:38 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-07 20:01   ` Richard Freeman [this message]
2008-05-07 20:10     ` Doug Goldstein
2008-05-08  0:52 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2008-05-08 13:17   ` Doug Goldstein
2008-05-08 13:28     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-05-08 13:32       ` Doug Goldstein
2008-05-08 13:36         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-05-08 13:43           ` Doug Goldstein
2008-05-09  8:37             ` James Cloos
2008-05-08 14:30           ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-05-08 13:41         ` Doug Goldstein
2008-05-08 14:33           ` Robert Buchholz
2008-05-09  1:04     ` Ryan Hill
2008-05-08 11:30 ` [gentoo-dev] " Luca Barbato

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