On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 3:29 PM Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > >>>>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Matt Turner wrote: > > > +# Even though xz-utils are in @system, they must still be added to DEPEND; > > see > > +# > > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_a0d4833eb314d1be5d5802a3b710e0a4.xml > > I didn't understand that argument in 2011, and I understand it even > less in 2019. Why would we add xz but not bzip2 and tar as dependencies? > > The devmanual is clear on this: > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html#implicit-system-dependency
Thanks. I'm happy to drop that block. I copied the code from gnome.org.eclass and figured that was the best thing to do to not rock the boat.
