On 8/12/19 6:28 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > 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 >
The devmanual is probably wrong, https://bugs.gentoo.org/485356 but no one agrees on how exactly to change it.
