----- "Patrice Dumas" pertusus@free.fr wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:26:07AM -0400, Michal Nowak wrote:
Hi.
When working on Minimal Platform [1] yesterday I noticed that
xarchiver
depends on binutils, the requirement is there since ~2006.
- Tue Nov 28 2006 Christoph Wickert cwickert@fedoraproject.org -
0.4.6-1
- Update to 0.4.6.
[...]
- Require binutils, cpio and htmlview.
[...]
I was wondering why this change happened and of course whether we need that dependency nowadays. I investigated a bit Debian's
xarchiver
page [2] and there's no requirement on binutils, nor its parts.
A guess would be that ar is used to unarchive one format.
Good point!
newman@dhcp-lab-124 xarchiver-0.5.2 $ grep -w ar -R -n src/*.c src/deb.c:31: command = g_strconcat ("ar tv ",archive->escaped_path,NULL); src/deb.c:133: command = g_strconcat ("ar x ",archive->escaped_path," ",names->str,NULL); src/main.c:372: absolute_path = g_find_program_in_path("ar");
I didn't even know xarchiver supports .deb.
I wish I can see different solution than splitting binutils, if there's demand for getting rid of 9MB dependency from XFCE/LXDE folks.
Michal