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Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Monday 23 August 2004 17:36, Lina Pezzella wrote: |
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>>I would entirely agree on the second point there. System for macos has |
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>>very few things installed (gzip not among them) because a lot is |
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>>provided by MacOS. At this point in the game, where we are porting |
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>>Gentoo to non-Linux userlands, it is probably a bad idea to "assume" |
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>>much of anything. |
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> I think gzip, tar, unzip and bzip2 should be runtime dependencies of portage |
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> itself. Portage needs them to unpack almost all packages. It would be hell if |
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> we would need to add any of them as a dependency just because of the fact |
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> that the package is offered in a tarball of some sort (most packages are). |
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> Paul |
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Was there a final verdict on this? |
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The two possible solutions mentioned in this thread: |
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1) add gzip (and others) as a portage run-time dep |
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2) change all DEPEND's containing app-arch/gzip to virtual/gzip |
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Regards |
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/* Aaron Walker |
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