On Thu, Dec 15, 2005, Robert Millan wrote: > Hi! Hi Robert!
> Please could you remove shared objects to handle non-7z formats from > /usr/lib/p7zip/Formats ? All except 7z.so are only needed to compress or > uncompress non-7z formats, but we already have utilities in Debian to deal > with > them. I've read the logs on #debian-devel about it, and I think it is a good idea. But on the other hand, 7za is exactly that: a standalone *.7z file extractor and compressor. If I had to make a p7zip udeb, I think I would do that (either strip all so files or only keep /usr/bin/7za). > I think this is just taking unnecessary space. p7zip is very good with its > own > compression format, but it just doesn't make any sense to reimplement other > format handler (and it doesn't use the external libraries where available > either). p7zip packages, as of now, are a good way not to have to install all of arj, zip, ... utils to extract an archive file (that is the situation on my own laptop ;). Does my answer seems sane to you? -- adn Mohammed Adnène Trojette
