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From: Tim Harder <radhermit@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Implicit system dependencies
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:32:16
Message-Id: 20110824073129.GG21553@freyja.radhermit.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Implicit system dependencies by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 On 2011-08-24 Wed 00:21, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
2 > Il giorno mar, 23/08/2011 alle 23.52 -0700, Tim Harder ha scritto:
3 > > I thought xz-utils can be assumed as well since it was added to the
4 > > system set almost six months ago [1].
5
6 > It has really very little to do with being in the system set or not. And
7 > the answer is no, you cannot assume that...
8
9 So then why do bzip2 and gzip get special exceptions? Majority rule? :)
10
11 Anyway, I think getting implicit unpack depends based on SRC_URI
12 suffixes like Mike mentioned will be great.
13
14 Tim

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Implicit system dependencies Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>