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 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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