Enrico Weigelt wrote:
I think, as long as there is no really minimal lzmadec available
yet (as standalone package), we should more standard compressors
like gzip or bzip2. Adding that whole bunch of deps just to
save a few bytes IMHO isn't worth it.
Keep in mind that this might mean doing our own repackaging of upstream
if they don't have a supported option. I think the only other option
would be to create an "lzmalite" package or something like that which
simply contains the decompressor in ordinary C. You could really turn
that into a separate package like gentoolkit or whatever - I wouldn't
actually embed the code into portage since that isn't the unix way and
it just forced other package managers (and other distros) to do the same
thing. An lzmalite package could have a life of its own and as a result
benefit from fewer bugs/etc.
But, I'm not going to be the one writing the thing, so feel free to not
listen to any of this... :)
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