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Eric Blake wrote:
| automake's dist-lzma already functions if you install lzma (I know,
| because I used it when creating m4 1.4.10b); automake uses 'tar | lzma'
| rather than 'tar --lzma'.
Furthermore, 'make distcheck' uses 'unlzma | tar'. Our
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
| automake's dist-lzma already functions if you install lzma (I know,
| because I used it when creating m4 1.4.10b); automake uses 'tar | lzma'
| rather than 'tar --lzma'.
Furthermore, 'make distcheck' uses 'unlzma | tar'. Our lzma-4.43-2 does
Eric Blake wrote:
Although in this case, automake could (and probably should) add lzma as a
dependency, since automake is not in Base either. Users who want automake
already committed to more than the default.
I added that dependency in 1.10.1-1
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Chuck
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I'm about to upload tar 1.19.90, which adds the --lzma command-line
option. Should I make tar depend on the lzma package?
Arguments for: it already depends on gzip and bzip2. Also, there was talk
on this list a while ago about switching to lzma,
Eric Blake wrote:
Arguments for: it already depends on gzip and bzip2. Also, there was talk
on this list a while ago about switching to lzma, instead of bzip2, for
files installed via setup.exe, since it gives the best compression ratios
to decompression speed tradeoff among all the popular
,
because I used it when creating m4 1.4.10b); automake uses 'tar | lzma'
rather than 'tar --lzma'.
|
| I'm all for fighting bloat, but we're talking about 68KB extra to
| download and ~150KB extra disk space, so I don't think it's too big of a
| deal.
At any rate, I'll do the upload now without
Eric Blake wrote:
automake's dist-lzma already functions if you install lzma (I know,
because I used it when creating m4 1.4.10b); automake uses 'tar | lzma'
rather than 'tar --lzma'.
Right; I meant having lzma (vicariously) in Base would also help users
of automake.
Brian
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According to Brian Dessent on 2/28/2008 9:32 PM:
| Eric Blake wrote:
|
| automake's dist-lzma already functions if you install lzma (I know,
| because I used it when creating m4 1.4.10b); automake uses 'tar | lzma'
| rather than 'tar --lzma
