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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:11:13 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/audio/lame Makefile
Message-ID:  <20040321181113.GA8782@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040321042730.V93457@blues.jpj.net>
References:  <200403201452.i2KEqJ9b039309@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040320234846.GA39998@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040321042730.V93457@blues.jpj.net>

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On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 05:41:22AM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> BTW if we were shielded from patent lawsuits we could distribute
> bzip-compressed packages and save a fair bit of space (see
> ports/archivers/bzip).

There aren't patent issues with bzip*2*, which is the package compression
we use in 5-CURRENT (and soon to be 5-STABLE).  It is only in releng4
that we still use gzip.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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