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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 1998 00:16:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
To:        grog@lemis.com
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: new category: "compress"
Message-ID:  <199802180816.AAA09611@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <19980218182723.49676@freebie.lemis.com> (message from Greg Lehey on Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:27:23 %2B1030)

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 * On Tue, 17 February 1998 at 20:23:52 -0800, Satoshi Asami wrote:
 * >  * I'd be more inclined to change the name 'archivers' to something which
 * >  * more obviously includes compressors.
 * >
 * > Like what?
 * 
 * You expect me to have all the answers?  How about "packaging"?

No, but it's easy to suggest that a category should contain such and
such, it's hard to come up with a good name.

As for packaging, it's too reminiscent of our package system and also
too ambiguous to mean "archivers and compressors".

Satoshi

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