Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> writes:

> On 4/3/24 11:30 AM, Eddie Chapman wrote:
>> Just to report I've been able to remove app-arch/xz-utils from my own
>> workstation, with 2412 packages installed and running kde. I'm going to
>> roll it out to my other gentoo systems which have a lot less stuff on them
>> so am confident will be fine. It's not completely trivial but not as
>> difficult as I imagined it to be, certainly something an advance Gentoo
>> user could do if they wanted, with instructions. It does involve a
>> relatively small hack and functionality previously provided by xz-utils is
>> replaced by app-arch/p7zip.
>
>
> I'd just like to clarify my previous posts: what you're describing here
> is neat and productive and valid to my eyes. Actually, I wish this had
> been the topic of the *first* post in this thread. :)

Completely agreed. We just prefer shorter text and focusing on technical
changes.

This sounds fun!

> [...]

thanks,
sam