Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:09:49 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...) Message-ID: <13548.981500989@winston.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Message from mi@aldan.algebra.com of "Tue, 06 Feb 2001 11:47:05 EST." <200102061647.f16Gl6P56895@misha.privatelabs.com>
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> Bzip2 has a more liberal license and is a better (more efficient > usually) compressor. It is also being actively maintained. Some Linux > distros come with man-pages bzip2-ed instead of gzip-ed too. IMHO, we > should use it. Does bzip offer any backwards compatability with gzip, e.g. if we bundled bzip in /usr/bin instead of gzip, would a hardlink to bzip under the name "gzip" still DTRT with .gz files? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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