zcat works only with gzip files. I'm reminded of this on systems with defaults.

As far as I know, zstdcat is a drop-in replacement, works with gzip, xz, zstd, and more. In some sense, both `provides` zcat.

Pacman packages are zstd, I would assume it is as oblivious on the system as is gzip.

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> On some systems, zcat may be installed as gzcat to preserve the original link to compress.

This is a petition for a better default: to install Gzip's as gzcat, and symlink zcat to zstdcat. Not exactly sure, where it should go to reach packaging.

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