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

Narvi narvi at haldjas.folklore.ee
Wed May 7 12:07:30 PDT 2003



On Sat, 3 May 2003, Mark Murray wrote:

> Thomas Seck writes:
> > Am I the only one who thinks that some people are on a "kill the GNU,
> > kill it now, no matter the cost" trip again?
>
> I don't think its quite that extreme :-).
>

If people want examples of non-BSD systems that have done the same change,
for example Mandrake uses bzip2 compression for the same bits proposed
here aswell. It is unlikely they would do so to kill off teh use of a GPL
program.

> M
> --
> Mark Murray
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