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  • From: Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] rpmunpack in basesystem
  • Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 10:43:46 -0400

Cleanness aside, you are correct, everything should be fine.

On Wed, 2004-19-05 at 07:34 -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>:
> > Sections of the sorcery code use rpmunpack. It expects it to be there,
> > and if it doesn't find when it needs it, it will start spewing errors.
> > But if the spells have their dependencies right, this shouldn't be a
> > problem. I just think is cleaner if everything that sorcery uses
> > explicitly is in the base system.
>
> I like having a system with only what /I/ use on it, and I'm sure others do
> as
> well. rpmunpack is probably hardly ever used, though it doesn't take up much
> space, it's still an extra that most don't need (along with cpio). Doesn't
> Sorcery only try to use rpmunpack on packages that use RPMs (that's why
> you're
> saying it should be safe, yes?)? If so, then I'll go ahead and do this
> today if
> there aren't any technical problems with it.
>
> -sandalle
>
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