Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>]

Richard Freeman wrote:
> 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...  :)
All upstreams in question still use gzip, they have only dropped bzip2 
support in favor of lzma.
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