o beckles wrote:
 
> Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:39, Richard Houser wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Zip and Unzip really aren't used that much in the linux world from my
> >>experience

> >StarOffice/OpenOffice and now KOffice pack their documents with it. Sorry,
> >that makes it `required' for me even if the ability to port Windows apps and
> >muck around with Java jars didn't.

> It should also be noted that Ark's default format is zip for new
> archives.  I don't think Ark should depend on zip as mentioned in
> another thread, but it should be installed by default (just like XMMS
> skins).

Whether it is installed by default or not, at the very least it should
be restored to the package selection list during install instead of
forcing people to manually install it afterwards. When I get an unusable
install, the first thing I want to do is copy all the logs to an msdos
partition, which can be rather troublesome without zip.
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