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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:41:08
Message-Id: CAGfcS_nxs2vWZ_1HGzWjtBJiHmRyyXgshQAgEU+MNfgU8V+0nw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2 by "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina"
1 On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2 <zerochaos@g.o> wrote:
3 > I'm confident no one would
4 > attempt to block my adding eselect-bzip2 to the tree (aside from my poor
5 > coding skills),
6
7 ++
8
9 > but would anyone be interested in blocking using lbzip2
10 > by default? It seems pretty safe and I've done dozens of full system
11 > builds etc.
12
13 Why not just make it an option to start, advertise it by all means,
14 and then see how it turns out with volunteers before we make it the
15 default. Going from nobody-has-heard-of-it to default overnight seems
16 a bit much.
17
18 Rich

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