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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ecompress heads up
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:44:32
Message-Id: 200701261741.47028.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ecompress heads up by Mike Frysinger
1 On Friday 26 January 2007 17:19, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Friday 26 January 2007 14:12, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
3 > > Furthermore, maybe it could check the compression type if any on the
4 > > original and then
5 >
6 > i purposefully choose to not go this route because i dont want to start
7 > adding handling for arbitrary compression types ... when such a list
8 > exists, we always get people who want use to add support for their
9 > $favorite-compression
10
11 that said, i would entertain the notion of auto uncompressing
12 just .bz2, .gz, .Z and telling everyone else to toss off ...
13 -mike

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