HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs

[David O'Brien]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:33:34PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
> > This is just an announcement that I'm going to add bzip2(1)
> > support to man(1) and makewhatis(1) (catman(1) already has
> > it), and then switch the default compression method from
> > gzip(1) to bzip2(1), for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs.
> > (The latest 4.5 texinfo supports bzip2.)
> 
> I don't mean to sound rude, but what is the justification for this?

It removes the depandancy (well reduces it) on one more GPV'ed binary. :-)