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on 08/24/04 11:30 Paul de Vrieze said the following: |
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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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This makes sense to me as well, since, in reality, it IS a portage |
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dependency. It's portage that needs virtual/gzip, etc, to extract the |
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package. A package's dependencies should be what the package itself needs to |
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compile/run. |
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> Paul |
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Wcc |
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