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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo
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On Fri, 2 May 2003, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:33:34PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote:
> > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >
> > > This is just an announcement that I'm going to add bzip2(1)
> > > support to man(1) and makewhatis(1) (catman(1) already has
> > > it), and then switch the default compression method from
> > > gzip(1) to bzip2(1), for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs.
> > > (The latest 4.5 texinfo supports bzip2.)
> >
> > I don't mean to sound rude, but what is the justification for this?
>
> It removes the depandancy (well reduces it) on one more GPV'ed binary. :-)
>

Really - except for a very limited set of streaming applications with hard
latency rules, going away from gzip to a BWT based compressors is a Very
Good Thing (tm).