On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Andreas Radke <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to keep unneeded packages out of core. I see no need to move > lzma into core. We only support tar.gz for our repos. Whoever wants to > use a different format can rebuild libarchive easily. > > I also wonder if our new tar package now supports lzma and lzop > compression (no tests so far). Both packages were not present when > building the tar package in he chroot. But even when it's now possible > to use these formats at runtime they should stay in extra until we may > use them for our repos.
I don't want to go too back and forth on this on the signoff thread so I'll move it here. I was thinking much more in the context of archives in general rather than just pacman using libarchive. libarchive ships with bsdtar, which I have found to be quicker than GNU tar at extracting (so I use it nearly exclusively). It would be a shame to tell people "we don't support .tar.lzma for anything"- that seems rather arbitrary, doesn't it? I too think [core] should stay as slim as possible, but when that requires we compile our packages with a less than ideal set of features, I want to at least give it some thought. -Dan
