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Re: proposal: modularize unpack in gnu build system
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: proposal: modularize unpack in gnu build system |
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Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:50:10 +0100 |
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Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> writes:
> It seems, that currently we don't have zip in gnu build system, so that
> ends up in native-inputs, if we need that to unpack the tarball.
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> It would be nice if gnu-build-system would use the appropriate compressor,
> and at the same time only depend on the one needed. How could this be
> achieved?
Why is this necessary? I don’t see a problem with adding “unzip” to the
native-inputs when it is needed to unpack a zip archive.
In my opinion this is so easy that I don’t think the slight increase in
convenience would be worth the change.
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