On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:43:04AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Iustin Pop <ius...@debian.org> wrote: > > There is also information on Wikipedia about various compression > > benchmarks, but IMHO if we want to switch from gzip then bzip2 > > doesn't make sense for /usr/share/doc. > > I'd like to see zless work transparently with bzip and xz compressed files. > There's really no need for three different wrapper programs when the zless > program can just consult the magic db to determine which decompression > program to use.
I'd like to see _less_ work transparently with bzip and xz compressed files, too. It's not impossible, I've seen it done on default RedHat installations. -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110817220300.go9...@grep.be
