On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:52:46 -0400 NP-Hardass <np-hard...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 06/10/2016 09:33 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 08:19:43 -0400
> > NP-Hardass <np-hard...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> >> # Ensure availibility of xz-utils on old EAPIs
> >> if [[ "${EAPI:-0}" -lt "6" ]]; then
> >> DEPEND="app-arch/xz-utils"
> >> fi
> >
> > One more thing. What is the rationale for this? I've tried hard, and I
> > can't find anything EAPI-conditional about dependency on xz-utils.
> >
>
> There was a light discussion last time I posted this which resulted in
> the suggestion that it be included with EAPI 5. There were a lot of
> mixed opinions, and a lot of doubts one way or the other. Should be
> moot now though, as I think I'm going to follow through on perfinion's
> suggestion starting with EAPI 6 only.
Just to be clear, xz-utils situation is the same in all EAPIs. if you
want to be a good person, explicitly depend on it. But it's not
strictly necessary anymore since someone added it to @system out of
laziness.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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