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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:31:29
Message-Id: 50E55DB7.8030106@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2 by "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina"
1 On 03/01/13 03:28, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote:
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5 > On 01/02/2013 06:11 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
6 >> El lun, 29-10-2012 a las 10:39 -0400, Rich Freeman escribió:
7 >>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
8 >>> <zerochaos@g.o> wrote:
9 >>>> I'm confident no one would
10 >>>> attempt to block my adding eselect-bzip2 to the tree (aside from my poor
11 >>>> coding skills),
12 >>>
13 >>> ++
14 >>>
15 >>>> but would anyone be interested in blocking using lbzip2
16 >>>> by default? It seems pretty safe and I've done dozens of full system
17 >>>> builds etc.
18 >>>
19 >>> Why not just make it an option to start, advertise it by all means,
20 >>> and then see how it turns out with volunteers before we make it the
21 >>> default. Going from nobody-has-heard-of-it to default overnight seems
22 >>> a bit much.
23 >>>
24 >>> Rich
25 >>>
26 >>>
27 >>
28 >> How this ended finally? :/
29 > It ended with my setting PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND="lbzip2" in my profile
30 > and moving on with my life. I am very not good at eselect scripts and
31 > I've not had the time to dig at it. You are welcome to work on the
32 > eselect script if you like.
33
34 Feel free to steal the code used in eselect-pinentry.
35
36 It was originally written by mgorny for eselect-sh, but then later
37 modified by me, and has not had a single bug ever since.

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