On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:12 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:34:56PM +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote: [snip] > The transition itself would go completly unadministered. Once dpkg is > switched to default to a different compression all freshly build > packages use it and the archive transitions itself over time.
Because a .deb would "know" whether it is compressed or not, and dpkg would dynamically determine whether it needed to decompress or not? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies." Oscar Wilde