2012/9/26 Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org>: > 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. That sound like a plan. Maybe bzip2 should become a virtual as busybox also provides an implementation.
-- Christoph Junghans http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/
