Re: pkg/42967: pkgsrc does not support 7z archive file (archivers/p7zip)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42967; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/42967: pkgsrc does not support 7z archive file
 (archivers/p7zip)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:10:47 +0100

 On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:40:01PM +0000, ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost wrote:
 > >Description:
 > New fonts/umefont-ttf (0.413) is released and only distributed in 7z archive 
 > format now.
 > Please support 7z archive.
 
 Please talk with upstream to use a standard archive format, thanks.
 There is practically no advantage of 7z over tar+xz, which is well
 supported. I explicitly would prefer to not have to support another
 obscure archive format.
 
 Joerg