On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 01:23:16 schrieb Dan McGee:
For libarchive to support lzma/xz natively, we would need liblzma in core as well. Thoughts?
Sure its only a few KB. Even the complete lzma-utils package would be only 75KB.
Anyway: Would it be better to use (successor) xz instead? Or ist the file format somehow compatible?
However: I think its a good idea to build libarchive with support for lzma/xz. Other tools (afaik KDE 4.3) will make use if this then, too.
Does lzma-utils need to be a dep or is an opt-dep fine? That would make the whole discussion moot... Anyway, I fine with bringing this to [core]. It would be bad to disable features just because of the arbitary bounary between [core] and [extra].
If we do it right, it can't be an optdep as libarchive will have a linking dep on liblzma, just as it currently does on gzip and bzip2. Unless there is some lazy dynamic loading going on (not really sure on this one), I would feel safer bringing it into core. -Dan