On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:39:41 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <dberkh...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > * Calling unpack on an unrecognised extension should be fatal, > > unless --if-compressed is specified. The default src_unpack needs > > to use this. > > Why?
Currently, if a package does an explicit 'unpack foo.bar', where .bar is an unsupported archive format, unpack just does nothing. This isn't a good default behaviour; if a package really wants something to be ignored silently, it should have to say so. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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