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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Implicit system dependencies
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:15:38
Message-Id: 20110824101509.GB6123@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Implicit system dependencies by Tim Harder
1 On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:31:29AM -0700, Tim Harder wrote:
2 > On 2011-08-24 Wed 00:21, Diego Elio Petten?? wrote:
3 > > Il giorno mar, 23/08/2011 alle 23.52 -0700, Tim Harder ha scritto:
4 > > > I thought xz-utils can be assumed as well since it was added to the
5 > > > system set almost six months ago [1].
6 >
7 > > It has really very little to do with being in the system set or not. And
8 > > the answer is no, you cannot assume that...
9 >
10 > So then why do bzip2 and gzip get special exceptions? Majority rule? :)
11
12 Age. Making the mistake once doesn't mean we should make it twice. ;)
13
14 > Anyway, I think getting implicit unpack depends based on SRC_URI
15 > suffixes like Mike mentioned will be great.
16
17 Proposals welcome; my personal preference is to see extensions mapped
18 into some form of repository configuration...
19
20 ~harring