Darren J Moffat wrote:
> 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.
But I understood that there were incompatibilities.... not every file is
uncompressable by *both* utilities.
-- Garrett
>
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> Darren J Moffat
