Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Addbzi

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:16 PM -0500 2000/1/24, John Baldwin wrote:

>                                                       Since zip integrates the
>  compression and archiving in one file format, you can look in the zip header,
>  find the file you want, and then extract and uncompress just its data.  This
>  functionality is key in the design of the new packaging system as packages
>  will be responsible for extracting themselves in the new system.

        Hmm.  Okay, that's an argument I can buy -- I may not like the 
resulting choice (for personal reasons, if nothing else), but I can 
buy the argument.

        Thanks!

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