[MacPorts] #47255: making port:xz optionally independent of other ports

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#47255: making port:xz optionally independent of other ports
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  Reporter:  rjvbertin@…  |      Owner:  ryandesign@…
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports        |    Version:
Resolution:               |   Keywords:  haspatch
      Port:  xz           |
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Comment (by rjvbertin@…):

 Replying to [comment:4 ryandesign@…]:
 > I agree that I don't want to add this variant and that I would rather
 work on getting an xz compressor/decompressor bundled with base. The hard
 work for that was already done when we started bundling tcl; I think
 adding more bundled software at this point would be easy. The question is
 which software.

 Is there a reason not to change the order of operations as I outlined?
 That would (should...) remove the need to bundle more things with base.

 I think that someone willing to figure out how to select xz for the
 software archives also won't have any problems installing port:xz or any
 of its alternatives.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/47255#comment:6>
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