Eli Schwartz <eschwart...@gmail.com> writes: > On 4/3/24 11:30 AM, Eddie Chapman wrote: >> Just to report I've been able to remove app-arch/xz-utils from my own >> workstation, with 2412 packages installed and running kde. I'm going to >> roll it out to my other gentoo systems which have a lot less stuff on them >> so am confident will be fine. It's not completely trivial but not as >> difficult as I imagined it to be, certainly something an advance Gentoo >> user could do if they wanted, with instructions. It does involve a >> relatively small hack and functionality previously provided by xz-utils is >> replaced by app-arch/p7zip. > > > I'd just like to clarify my previous posts: what you're describing here > is neat and productive and valid to my eyes. Actually, I wish this had > been the topic of the *first* post in this thread. :)
Completely agreed. We just prefer shorter text and focusing on technical changes. This sounds fun! > [...] thanks, sam
