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Date:      Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:59:05 -0400
From:      Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
To:        David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc newsyslog.conf
Message-ID:  <3D827BC9.DA395958@bellatlantic.net>
References:  <200209121728.g8CHS7An013425@freefall.freebsd.org> <3D80D22F.B7BDF10E@FreeBSD.org> <20020912234740.GB99846@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020913105554.A26167@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

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> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 04:47:40PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:

> > This is a default that can be changed by the embedded community.  The
> > gain is smaller log files and the ability to remove a GPL'ed binary from
> > the system with out breaking things.  (there are still uses of gzip, but
> > we are one step closer...)

Why on Earth would you want to remove gzip from the base system ?
It's a well-established program by now and pretty much everyone
expects it to just be there. Removing it will break things for great
many people who will have to install gzip manually. Please
don't cause all this trouble for a stupid religious reason.

-SB

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