Do we want to use .xz distfiles for ports that otherwise do not
depend on archivers/xz?

$ cd /usr/ports/distfiles && ls -l transmission-2.12*
-rw-r--r--  1 naddy  wsrc  4224230 Nov 19 18:33 transmission-2.12.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1 naddy  wsrc  2341100 Nov 19 23:22 transmission-2.12.tar.xz

We've been there before a number of years ago, when bzip2 started
to become popular.

If we want to use more .xz distfiles, should we drop the gettext
dependency from the xz port (--disable-nls) to minimize the dependency
tree?

A complicating factor is that xz requires at least gcc3 to build.
(The code is full of declarations after statements.  They didn't
slip in accidentally, the author purposely uses them all the time.)

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [email protected]

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