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. A switch inevitably involves a period of time where we have a mixture of compression methods in use. Even after that there will be a variety of old data (I'm sure that I'm not the only person who has been using gzip for most things because it's usually good enough and it's a matter of habit). As most Unix commands aren't consciously typed having multiple variants of zless would be a real drag. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- 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/201108161043.04786.russ...@coker.com.au