On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 12:30 +0200, Patrice Dumas 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(a)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.
dpkg's container format is ar, in much the same way rpm's container
format is cpio.
- ajax