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

[Matthias Buelow]

Daniel C. Sobral writes:

>If two programs do the same thing, but one is GPL and the other is not, 
>the other one is clearly preferable for FreeBSD.

The two programs, however, only do the same thing if you consider
that they're both compressors.  bzip2 eats much more resources than
gzip, both space and time.  And the algorithm is rather overkill for
small files anyways.

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Matthias Buelow
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