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From: Torsten Veller <ml-en@××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Adding app-arch/xz-utils to the system set
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:40:34
Message-Id: 20110302085808.TAb2f906.tv@veller.net
1 * Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>:
2 > Well, the interesting bit of info is that the wider developer
3 > community maybe already assumes it to be in the system set. *OR* can't
4 > be bothered to remember that it is NOT in the system set. The data to
5 > back up this statement is in https://bugs.gentoo.org/349315 in which
6 > ~20 packages are discovered to be missing the build time dep.
7
8 The same argument can be used to add app-arch/unzip to the system set.
9 ~106 packages do not DEPEND on app-arch/unzip while using a zip file.
10
11 I think the missing dependency problem should be fixed by a repoman
12 patch.
13
14 The two bugs in the OP weren't PM-can-not-unpack-the-sources problems.
15 --
16 Regards Torsten