[GitHub] [buildstream] gtristan commented on pull request #1710: doc/source/main_install.rst: Buildstream depends on lzip

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gtristan commented on PR #1710:
URL: https://github.com/apache/buildstream/pull/1710#issuecomment-1207909600

   I'm not really concerned about the outcome... whether we explicitly list `lzip` as a dependency or not but...
   
   To clarify:
   
   * BuildStream is perfectly capable of functioning without `lzip` installed, it's not required by any means
   * If your BuildStream project uses a `.tar.lz` file, then the `tar` plugin will require `lzip` (this is an exceedingly rare case)
   * If you try to run `BuildStream` to load an element that uses a `.tar.lz` file, it will exit early informing the user that `lzip` was not found on the host
     * So there is at least a user story for informing the user that they need `lzip` in that edge case
   
   What do we prefer to do ?
   


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