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From: Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@...>
Subject: Re: RFC: lzma tarball usage
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 16:12:00 +0200
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:23 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote:

> I'd be happy if some other unpacker is used than lzma-utils - one that
> does not depend on libstdc++ - I'm sure it can be done, heck it's done
> in integrated form in some other projects in less than a couple
> kilobytes of code for the unpacking from a VFS. Meanwhile please
> consider using the upstream provided .tar.gz tarballs instead and not
> roll patchsets in .lzma just cause you can.

busybox has unlzma and seems to be a part of "system".

Should also be easy to create a really tiny unlzma from the busybox
source and ship with portage, or create a patch for tar or something.

-nc


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