tigran> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> i) Does this sound reasonable to everyone? In particular, is there any
>> loss in losing the "original" compressed files?
tigran> No, there is at least one reason for the "original" .gz files. Here are
tigran> the logical steps:
tigran> a) any Linux distribution contains their own "linux" package with the
tigran> source base being "vanilla" Linux .tar.gz file
Mandrake also use .bz2 since ages ago.
Later, Juan.
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