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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - 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. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
