Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 23:05:45 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) Message-ID: <200001230405.XAA56397@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001221855390.4454-100000@localhost> References: <200001230222.SAA18355@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001221855390.4454-100000@localhost>
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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
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