Garrett D'Amore wrote: > I believe that this case represents a linux familiarity case. While I > am no happier about the delivery of a separate object with slightly > different command line switches and operational semantics than anyone > else on this list, I do believe that we've already long ago established > the precedent that except for "critical pieces" of the core > architecture, we are willing to abdicate "good architecture" in favor of > "familiarity", except in the case of particularly gross violations -- > such as cases which would have a negative impact on system security or > on the usability of other components in the system.
That part can be addressed with a single source and hardlinks so that both pbzip2 and bzip2 appear in the filesystem. The point here is we don't want to waste resources maintaining two copies when they are so very close to each other. -- Darren J Moffat
