On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 07:30 -0400, Michal Nowak wrote:
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.
This is an ideal case for the use of soft dependencies, of course...