From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 22 20: 5:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A4F15068 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 20:05:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA56397; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 23:05:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 23:05:45 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200001230405.XAA56397@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Alex Zepeda Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) In-Reply-To: References: <200001230222.SAA18355@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If I may inject some possibly-irrelevant fact into this discussion... gzip (or rather, the ``deflate'' compression algorithm and the libz file format) has been adopted into a number of formal standards. It's likely that it will remain with us for a long time. For those of us who eschew bloatware, it continues to be entirely adequate. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message