Re: unzip, builddepends, and the base system

The best solution tot his, IMHO, is to add (as multiple people suggest) 
unzip to the base packages. It is consistent with our current setup, is 
trivial to implement, and requires no special cases to be added to the 
Fink codebase.
I see no gain in using perl modules for the extraction process. They 
won't be faster (but maybe slower); they will not reduce the number of 
dependencies; but will cause problems with regards to multiple perl 
version, and/or perl modules installed via CPAN; they require us to 
write new code instead of using the perfectly well working and well 
tested current code. Plus if the user wants to extract one of the 
archives manually (something which a package developer has to do 
frequently, to create patches etc.), you'll need the unzip tool anyway.
So, IMO, we should move the unzip package to base, make it essential, 
and of course also add it to the fink/ CVS module (so that it'll be 
installed during bootstrap.

Max



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