Bug 285199

Summary:	Ability to unpack parts of an archive instead of the complete one
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Justin Lecher (RETIRED) <jlec>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-09-16 14:45:55 UTC

Sometimes one do not need to unpack the complete archive if only a part is needed. QT already does this.
I have a package in the sci overlay which I splitt into several parts to be able to update/patch each part seperatly. The whole complete thing is unpacked around 800mb and some of the packages just need 5mb out of it. Here it would be really helpfull just to unpack those parts.