Bug 398925

Summary:	app-arch/tar: Add USE flags for archivers matching existing flags
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Richard Yao (RETIRED) <ryao>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Richard Yao (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-01-14 22:41:55 UTC

tar has support for xz via -J, but it does not depend on app-arch/xz-utils.

This can cause situations where app-arch/tar is installed, but app-arch/xz-utils is not, causing usages of tar with -J to fail.

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-01-14 22:48:38 UTC

tar is for creating .tar, anything other and you will have to install the matching archiver (gzip, bzip2, xz-utils)
adding depends for them would be overkill

Comment 2 Richard Yao (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-01-15 02:00:07 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> tar is for creating .tar, anything other and you will have to install the
> matching archiver (gzip, bzip2, xz-utils)
> adding depends for them would be overkill

Would use flag dependencies be plausible to be consistent with layman's use of such flags for various version control systems?

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-01-17 04:39:46 UTC

adding USE deps doesn't gain us anything.  the tools are executed at runtime via external program passed through pipes.  there is no linking going on.