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: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:28:52 +0100

 On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 01:20:04AM +0000, OBATA Akio wrote:
 >  For usual ttf-fonts developers, they will probably not focus to Unix 
 > platforms mainly,
 >  so it it nasty to create tar+* archive for them.
 
 In that case they should something portable like zip in first place.
 Really, 7z is yet another zip-like format that provides no real gain
 over the alternatives.
 
 Joerg