From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ju4KP-0006Rq-Je for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 11:30:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07939E04DC; Thu, 8 May 2008 11:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B9CE04DC for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 11:30:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.19.85.133] (85-18-90-195.ip.fastwebnet.it [85.18.90.195]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 098386767C for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 11:30:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4822E446.8010905@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 13:30:14 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080228) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage References: <1210166592.19574.10.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1210166592.19574.10.camel@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9861042d-5667-40e3-99aa-8062d062fc56 X-Archives-Hash: 7998c3166720dc9c0f6658104263ebb6 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Hello, > > Over the course of this year, a lzma-utils buildtime dependency has been > added to a few system packages, to handle .tar.lzma tarballs. > This has huge implications on the requirement of the system toolchain, > which is highly disturbing from a minimal (lets say embedded) systems > concern - lzma-utils depends on the C++ compiler and the libstdc++ > beast, while a minimal system would like to avoid this at all cost. I'd rewrite the C++ code in plain C if isn't that complex... lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list