Dropping pxz port?

Mahmoud Al-Qudsi mqudsi at neosmart.net
Fri Jun 1 03:56:16 UTC 2018


Hello all,

The pxz port is badly created (installing the package pulls in the
entire gcc6 suite and gcc-ecj, just to deploy the binary), and ends up
needing over 500mib of space for a very simple utility.

I was about to fix it when I found out that upstream pxz is both
abandoned and broken ([0], and in particular, [1]). Perhaps it should
be dropped?

Thank you,

Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
NeoSmart Technologies

[0]: https://github.com/jnovy/pxz/issues
[1]: https://github.com/jnovy/pxz/issues/29


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