On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:25:10PM +0200, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: > > Here is a patch to remove the bzip2 dependency from Lynx. We were > > previously linking against bzlib so the library would be used instead > > of the bzip2 binary, in order to unpack bzip2 compressed HTML. > > > > We now prevent lynx from appending 'bzip2' in the 'Accept-Encoding' > > header instead. > > Not a lynx user here, just wondering: what is the reason for this > revert? Limiting the deps shipped by the install CDs?
The rationale was to avoid depending on bzip2 for a rarely useful feature (only Lighttpd sends bzip2 compressed content), and go back to a dependency free Lynx port. As we both know, it's a bit too late to limit the deps shipped by install CDs. But you have a point, it's maybe not that important anymore now and a cheap dependency on bzip2 might be better than adding another patch.
