1) Why does the Getting Started documentation still say that the xz package is a requirement for installing Exherbo? Since version 1.22, tar has supported xz compression/decompression via the J option. Therefore, in the installation procedure, the line "unxz -c *.tar.xz | tar xpf -" could be replaced with "tar xpJf *.tar.xz", eliminating the xz dependency.
2) Why does expatch (in the src_prepare phase) support zip, gzip, and bzip2, but not xz? For the sake of consistency, it seems like it should support xz as well, and I think such support could be implemented by merely adding the following three lines to its case statement: *.xz) cmd="xz -dc" ;; I'd write, test, and submit this patch myself, since it looks relatively trivial, but unfortunately, I have no free time these days :-( . Regards, Tom
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