Archives are mountable because they represent a (albeit ill-defined) file system: they have numerous files, often directory structures, sometimes even volumes in the case of ISOs, etc. Compressed files are just that: files that have been compressed. They aren't file systems by any stretch. They're just files.
I understand the need for a GUI tool to work with it and compress/decompress it, but the Archive Mounter is the wrong tool for that. -- Archive Mounter cannot mount single-file archives like .bz2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435579 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
