----- "Patrice Dumas" <pertusus@xxxxxxx> 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@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.
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.
Michal
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