xarchiver needs binutils?

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 12:30 +0200, Patrice Dumas 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 at fedoraproject.org> - 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.

dpkg's container format is ar, in much the same way rpm's container
format is cpio.

- ajax
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