On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn > <chith...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Michael Mol schrieb: >>> A few months ago, I filed bug 423651 to ask that bzip2 on the install >>> media be replaced with >>> pbzip2. >> >> If I understand correctly, pbzip2 depends on bzip2. So what you are >> asking is that pbzip2 is preferred over bzip2 when both are installed, >> and that pbzip2 is installed by default? > > pbzip2 uses libbzip2, which I understand bzip2 to also be a wrapper around. >
libbz2 is built and installed by the app-arch/bzip2 package. Thus, app-arch/pbzip2 depends on app-arch/bzip2, unless someone rips libbz2 out into a separate ebuild.
