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From: Christoph Junghans <ottxor@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:58:32
Message-Id: CANgp9ky_jaqecjx68XZa76WxE2w8jxab_ZAJkmGhK3CHpACDrQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2 by Mike Gilbert
1 2012/9/26 Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>:
2 > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
4 >> <chithanh@g.o> wrote:
5 >>> Michael Mol schrieb:
6 >>>> A few months ago, I filed bug 423651 to ask that bzip2 on the install
7 >>>> media be replaced with
8 >>>> pbzip2.
9 >>>
10 >>> If I understand correctly, pbzip2 depends on bzip2. So what you are
11 >>> asking is that pbzip2 is preferred over bzip2 when both are installed,
12 >>> and that pbzip2 is installed by default?
13 >>
14 >> pbzip2 uses libbzip2, which I understand bzip2 to also be a wrapper around.
15 >>
16 >
17 > libbz2 is built and installed by the app-arch/bzip2 package. Thus,
18 > app-arch/pbzip2 depends on app-arch/bzip2, unless someone rips libbz2
19 > out into a separate ebuild.
20 That sound like a plan. Maybe bzip2 should become a virtual as busybox
21 also provides an implementation.
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25 --
26 Christoph Junghans
27 http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2 Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2 "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>