Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:36:19 -0400 From: Skip Ford <skip.ford@verizon.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: tar(1) versus unzip Message-ID: <20050914203618.GA888@lucy.pool-151-204-5-5.pskn.east.verizon.net>
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Why do ports that need to unzip a file still depend on unzip? I uninstalled unzip way back when bsdtar(1) was able to unzip but several ports still try to install it even though the system's native tar can unzip their files just fine, at least with the zipped ports I use. Looks like the magic to handle it can just go into a file in ports/Mk with USE_ZIP, but my Makefile-writing skills aren't good enough to do it. I also don't know the version of FreeBSD that first included bsdtar with zip as the native tar. So, is there some reason unzip is still needed on all systems or has no one with the knowledge had the time to fix it? -- Skip
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