On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 02:14:08PM -0400, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Having said that, I'm a lot less opposed to this idea than I am to the > > idea of using bzip2 for debs. > > Well, perhaps it would be nice to have it as an option for things > where either we can't use pristine source anyway, or those rare, but > often meaningful, occasions where it's supported upstream (linux > kernel, maybe xfree one day...). > > Besides, considering the glacial pace of dpkg development, you won't > have to take a decided stance any time soon. :-)
It just so happens that with XFree86 we "can't use pristine source anyway". XFree86 source ships like the X source itself does -- in three chunks. It would probably make a lot of people very happy (including me) to bzip2 the Xfree86 source and/or binaries. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's "magic" is another man's Purdue University | engineering. "Supernatural" is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | null word. http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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