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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
Subject: Re: RFC: lzma tarball usage
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 13:30:14 +0200
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

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