Julio Merino <jmmv@menta.net> writes:

> Does the file-roller binary change, depending on which archivers
> were present at compile time? If that is not the case, we could
> simply recommend the administrator through a MESSAGE to install as
> many compression tools as he wants. (and probably depend on the most
> common ones, i.e, gzip, bzip2, zip).

Ah, should have thought of that.  The binary does not change; it
doesn't even try to detect any of the archivers at build-time.  I
would say that no dependencies are necessary by default, since in
that case it can still create tar archives compresses with gzip
or bzip2.  That is a reasonable default.  The note in MESSAGE
ought to take care of the rest.

A more serious problem is pkg/19788.

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