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FS#28764 - Move lzop from [extra] to [core]

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Faelar (Faelar) - Saturday, 03 March 2012, 21:13 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 27 April 2012, 06:25 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

- mkinitcpio is in [core] and allows you to select between gzip, bzip2, lzma, xz and lzop to compress the initramfs image.
- gzip, bzip2 and lzma/xz are in the [core] repository.
- lzop is currently in the [extra] repository.

I think lzop should be moved to [core] as it is offered as one of the possible options.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Friday, 27 April 2012, 06:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  lzop is an optdep
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Sunday, 04 March 2012, 00:01 GMT
It's an optdepend. We've never had a hard rule about optdepends following the repo hierarchy rules. Given that _nothing_ depends directly lzop, I find this to be a hard sell.
Comment by Faelar (Faelar) - Sunday, 04 March 2012, 13:08 GMT
Then maybe a comment line should be added in mkinitcpio.conf to tell the user about lzop not being directly available. What I have in mind is the installation process, where you install the base distribution and then edit the files. If lzop is selected then the initial configuration will fail.

I do understand though you'd like to avoid adding too much things in [core].

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