From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: proposal: modularize unpack in gnu build system Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:50:10 +0100 Message-ID: <87po5bi4bx.fsf@elephly.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38997) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elEI7-00005l-Aw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:37:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elEI4-0003Zw-Nb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:37:07 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21095) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elEI4-0003Yb-Dc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:37:04 -0500 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?utf-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor?= Boskovits Cc: Guix-devel G=C3=A1bor Boskovits 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=E2=80=99t see a problem with adding =E2=80=9C= unzip=E2=80=9D to the native-inputs when it is needed to unpack a zip archive. In my opinion this is so easy that I don=E2=80=99t think the slight increas= e in convenience would be worth the change. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net