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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] xorg-3.eclass: Add XORG_TARBALL_SUFFIX
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 22:36:10
Message-Id: CAEdQ38HqAU72BausYXvav-OB=7WJV65Ey+gDbhOhn7Jqch3KCA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] xorg-3.eclass: Add XORG_TARBALL_SUFFIX by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 3:29 PM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > >>>>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Matt Turner wrote:
4 >
5 > > +# Even though xz-utils are in @system, they must still be added to DEPEND; see
6 > > +# https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_a0d4833eb314d1be5d5802a3b710e0a4.xml
7 >
8 > I didn't understand that argument in 2011, and I understand it even
9 > less in 2019. Why would we add xz but not bzip2 and tar as dependencies?
10 >
11 > The devmanual is clear on this:
12 > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html#implicit-system-dependency
13
14 Thanks. I'm happy to drop that block. I copied the code from
15 gnome.org.eclass and figured that was the best thing to do to not rock
16 the boat.