xarchiver needs binutils?

[Michal Nowak]

----- "Patrice Dumas" <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:26:07AM -0400, Michal Nowak wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > When working on Minimal Platform [1] yesterday I noticed that
> xarchiver 
> > depends on binutils, the requirement is there since ~2006. 
> > 
> > * Tue Nov 28 2006 Christoph Wickert <cwickert at fedoraproject.org> -
> 0.4.6-1
> > - Update to 0.4.6.
> > [...]
> > - Require binutils, cpio and htmlview.
> > [...]
> > 
> > I was wondering why this change happened and of course whether we 
> > need that dependency nowadays. I investigated a bit Debian's
> xarchiver 
> > page [2] and there's no requirement on binutils, nor its parts.
> 
> A guess would be that ar is used to unarchive one format.

Good point!

newman at dhcp-lab-124 xarchiver-0.5.2 $ grep -w ar -R -n src/*.c
src/deb.c:31:	command = g_strconcat ("ar tv ",archive->escaped_path,NULL);
src/deb.c:133:	command = g_strconcat ("ar x ",archive->escaped_path," ",names->str,NULL);
src/main.c:372:	absolute_path = g_find_program_in_path("ar");

I didn't even know xarchiver supports .deb.

I wish I can see different solution than splitting binutils, if there's
demand for getting rid of 9MB dependency from XFCE/LXDE folks.

Michal