From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: proposal: modularize unpack in gnu build system
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:50:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87po5bi4bx.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE4v=pgfQi10c30UCGTmX_V_yG=PkYdQ0XbFgbsvKrDsTfiSNA@mail.gmail.com>
Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> 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.
>
> 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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Ricardo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-12 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-10 21:30 proposal: modularize unpack in gnu build system Gábor Boskovits
2018-02-11 21:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2018-02-12 15:12 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-02-14 13:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-14 19:40 ` Gábor Boskovits
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