Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 May 2006 22:24:10 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression |
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>> > Any idea why this wasn't done for bzip2? >> >> Yes, the bzip2 author I have been told was originally planning to do that, >> but then thought it would be harder to deploy that way (because gzip is a >> core utility, and people are nervous about making it larger.)
I'd say that concern is valid.
>It's a bit of a shame bzip2 even exists, really. It really would be better if >there was one unified, pluggable archiver on UNIX (and portables).
Would You Like To Contribute(tm)? :) Whenever a program is missing, someone is there to write it.
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