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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [kvm-ppc-devel] Top level kvm-userspace	directory
 getting	crowded ...	need new dir	for qemu dependencies
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:38:45 +0100
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Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> That's a strange assertion, considering that Debian (and thus Ubuntu)
> doesn't have it.

Others do..

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/dtc
http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-apps/dtc
http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/opensuse/dtc.html

> Have you actually looked at the code in question, or just saw that it
> has "lib" in the name?
> 
> It's 1600 lines of C. In contrast, zlib, which is used in a large number
> of projects, and despite that is often statically linked, is 8500.

That's why today some people are hunting copies and submitting patches 
to cleanup that mess.

lu

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Luca Barbato
Gentoo Council Member
Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero


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