2018-02-11 22:50 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>:

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.

You might be right about that. What I feel is that:

1. this is a recurring newbie question on the irc channel, I've seen it already a few times, so support time could be reduced

2. this change could make adding new archive types easier in the future.

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Ricardo

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