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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
	Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD hacker 101
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KAYVEN  RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> writes:
> i don't recognize that as what i said, but i was trying to make the
> point that BSD DOESn't use rpm compression, and that was a point i
> was trying to make in terms of comparison/contrast

I'm not sure what you mean by "rpm compression", since rpm is not a
compression algorithm but a set of tools and a file format (based on
gzipped cpio archives) used by those tools.

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