Re: Remove dependency on gunzip

2009-12-05 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Yep. I'm applying this to remove the dependency upon unlzma, gunzip, and bunzip2, and adding you to THANKS, to the maint branch, intended for master and branch-1.11. Thanks, Antonio.

Re: Remove dependency on gunzip

2009-12-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Antonio, sorry for the delay. * Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote on Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:09:47PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >>As gunzip is a link to gzip, the only difference between using > >>"gunzip" and "gzip -d" is that the former adds a gratuitous > >>dependency on the gunzip name. > >

Re: Remove dependency on gunzip

2009-10-30 Thread Jack Kelly
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > OTOH, wasn't it likely for some of the compressions that only the > decompressor is installed, due to them being separate packages with > separate licenses or so? Maybe you're thinking of compress? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress say

Re: Remove dependency on gunzip

2009-10-30 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: As gunzip is a link to gzip, the only difference between using "gunzip" and "gzip -d" is that the former adds a gratuitous dependency on the gunzip name. Well, from the user's perspective, who never needs 'make dist', your patch adds a gratuitous dependency on the gzip na

Re: Remove dependency on gunzip

2009-10-30 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Antonio, Thanks for the bug report and patch. * Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote on Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 05:42:29PM CEST: > I recently received a error message from GNU info on a computer > without the gunzip binary installed. While fixing this error, I > noticed automake introduces in every package