Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751175AbWEVUY1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 16:24:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751176AbWEVUY1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 16:24:27 -0400 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:49043 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751175AbWEVUY1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 16:24:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 22:24:10 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Alistair John Strachan cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression In-Reply-To: <200605222015.01980.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: References: <200605222007.19456.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <44720CB6.7010908@zytor.com> <200605222015.01980.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 815 Lines: 23 >> > Any idea why this wasn't done for bzip2? >> >> Yes, the bzip2 author I have been told was originally planning to do that, >> but then thought it would be harder to deploy that way (because gzip is a >> core utility, and people are nervous about making it larger.) I'd say that concern is valid. >It's a bit of a shame bzip2 even exists, really. It really would be better if >there was one unified, pluggable archiver on UNIX (and portables). Would You Like To Contribute(tm)? :) Whenever a program is missing, someone is there to write it. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/