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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 11:30:25
Message-Id: 4822E446.8010905@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage by Mart Raudsepp
1 Mart Raudsepp wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > Over the course of this year, a lzma-utils buildtime dependency has been
5 > added to a few system packages, to handle .tar.lzma tarballs.
6 > This has huge implications on the requirement of the system toolchain,
7 > which is highly disturbing from a minimal (lets say embedded) systems
8 > concern - lzma-utils depends on the C++ compiler and the libstdc++
9 > beast, while a minimal system would like to avoid this at all cost.
10
11 I'd rewrite the C++ code in plain C if isn't that complex...
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13 lu
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17 Luca Barbato
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