Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> I would, but if it's a "valid concern" that gzip is a few hundred KB larger, 
> and the community would not graciously receive such work, there's not much 
> point, is there? :-)
>
> Seriously, though, if I understand gzip correctly, it uses deflate/zlib 
> internally. Why, in that case, does /bin/gzip not (dynamically) link against 
> libz? If a first step was fixing that, a second could be linking dynamically 
> against libbz2 and 'liblzma', and making it all compile-time configurable.

Because gzip predates zlib...

	-hpa
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