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Date:      Fri, 2 May 2003 00:19:26 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
To:        Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs
Message-ID:  <20030502071926.GC3258@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030502153334.A70914@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
References:  <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com> <20030502153334.A70914@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

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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. :-)



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