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Richard Freeman wrote: |
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> Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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>> I think, as long as there is no really minimal lzmadec available |
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>> yet (as standalone package), we should more standard compressors |
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>> like gzip or bzip2. Adding that whole bunch of deps just to save a |
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>> few bytes IMHO isn't worth it. |
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> Keep in mind that this might mean doing our own repackaging of |
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> upstream if they don't have a supported option. I think the only |
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> other option would be to create an "lzmalite" package or something |
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> like that which simply contains the decompressor in ordinary C. You |
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> could really turn that into a separate package like gentoolkit or |
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> whatever - I wouldn't actually embed the code into portage since that |
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> isn't the unix way and it just forced other package managers (and |
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> other distros) to do the same thing. An lzmalite package could have a |
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> life of its own and as a result benefit from fewer bugs/etc. |
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> |
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> But, I'm not going to be the one writing the thing, so feel free to |
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> not listen to any of this... :) |
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All upstreams in question still use gzip, they have only dropped bzip2 |
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support in favor of lzma. |
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