On 2011-10-14 12:57 , William Siegrist wrote: > On Oct 13, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: > >>> Well, we usually don't want to mess with settings that are explicitly >>> specified, because that may well be what the user really wants. It would >>> certainly be nice to fix this for users that do just want the new >>> default, but is that worth meddling with the settings of those that don't? >> >> Not sure why anyone would use gzip over bzip---on a mac. >> >> It sounds like we need to deploy archives for both gzip and bzip then. >> > > > I don't see why we need to honor their local setting for the pre-built > packages. If they want a package from packages.macports.org, they get it as a > tbz2. Why waste the disk space keeping 2 types?
I agree. There hasn't been an announcement sent out about binaries yet, so when there is, let's mention that users should check this setting. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
