On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 01:35:05PM +0200, Francois Pussault wrote: > Then if bzip & gzip are inside tar, you may not distribute them as > standalone, so you cannot bzip or gzip any other > file format than tar... > > then you integrate them ... but still need ton have standalone versions to > use them...this mean you need them both tow times on the system, one version > included in tar & the standalone one... this is just stupid & useless. > > standalone versions called by tar with -j & -z ; is then better by far ! > > Even a broken & stupid brain like mine can understand it :) :) > > > Why not include xz-utils and bzip2 in base? Both are well esteblished and at > > least bzip2 is anyway installed on nearly every desktop.
Nice. And how does it deal with including xz-utils and bzip2 in base? Do You really believe that those can't be integrated without staticly linking? Or what did You mean saying "if bzip & gzip are inside tar"? -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
