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  > However, the question remains unanswered why it needs 3 different
  > compression libraries (liblzma, libzstd, and liblz4). Why would one
  > not suffice?

It seems natural to me to have more.  If it uses these so as to read
files compressed by users or sysadmins, it makes sense to try to
support whichever compression format those people chose to use.

I'm speculating -- I don't know why it uses these compression liraries.


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