Bug#4057: compress package install additional zcat
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> There should be one zcat and it should always be gzip. This won't
> break anything as gzip understands .Z files...
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> Making zcat point to compress even sometimes will definitely break
> things; IME much of the Linux world has been assuming it's gzip for a
> number of years. That seems unlikely to change.
Ok, I've corrected that: I build a package without any of the commands
provided by gzip.
> compress is obsolete software; there's never any need to use it to
> uncompress things. Indeed, my experience (err, on Sunos rather than
> Linux, so this may not be relevant) is that gzip is much more reliable
> even at uncompressing .Z files. I can't see the need to compress
> things using compress either, as gzip produces smaller output, runs on
> pretty much everything and is free.
Only one need: compress X font files, until someone makes the X font-reading
stuff aware of gzip.
YA.
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