Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750754AbWEVVFU (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 17:05:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750959AbWEVVFT (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 17:05:19 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:28367 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750754AbWEVVFT (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 17:05:19 -0400 Message-ID: <44722756.5090902@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 14:04:22 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alistair John Strachan CC: Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression References: <200605222015.01980.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <200605222200.18351.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200605222200.18351.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 814 Lines: 20 Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > I would, but if it's a "valid concern" that gzip is a few hundred KB larger, > and the community would not graciously receive such work, there's not much > point, is there? :-) > > Seriously, though, if I understand gzip correctly, it uses deflate/zlib > internally. Why, in that case, does /bin/gzip not (dynamically) link against > libz? If a first step was fixing that, a second could be linking dynamically > against libbz2 and 'liblzma', and making it all compile-time configurable. > Because gzip predates zlib... -hpa - 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/