2011/12/24 Claudio Freire
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Cristian Rodríguez
wrote: It is not that wonderful actually, it will require adding extra packages to the base installation anyway, defeating the original purpose that is having the less as possible packages in the base buildroot.
Ok, but if a big portion of upstream projects start shipping xz tarballs, is one extra package that much?
Cristian, For example, some days ago we start rebuilding over 40 packages for MATE (the Mint featured desktop alternative), those packages once more came in .xz. But there might be another potential workaround... Is it possible to configure the build environment base packages in OBS for a project? That way probably would probably allow people to tweak their repo's for extended 'functionality'. Personally I think it's somehow bad to reduce too much the build environment... and it depends a bit on which kind of packages you are building, normal releases don't need much stuff around, while if you're building CVS/git sources it takes a few extra packages. Cutting down too much stuff isn't actually good, depends too much on what kind stuff people work with. Sure it will improve some projects, but will also make others far more dificult.
That could be the case if many apps follow gnome 3's suit, which seems to be the case already for many gnome core apps.
GNOME itself is big enough to justify it, that's my opinion, but they are not the only ones. All Mate development packages are in .xz for example (the releases are also in bz2). If you have documentation (I'm not even sure if its possible) to use project metadata to define extra packages for a project base build environment, will work for me for most situations. NM PS: but I did liked your suggestion, bsdtar and libarchive seem nice for this kinda stuff, even for normal user usage as it offers pretty much all the functionality I require for archive management.
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