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Re: Suggestion to and how to alow different compression for .debs



	There's still problems with using pre-depends to make sure bzip2
is installed.  It's not exactly what pre-depends was intended for.  It's
not going to be pretty if a user tries to remove bzip2 and dselect shoots
up the dependency/conflict screen and marks every single package that was
bzip2 compressed for removal.  It's also specifically warned in the
packaging manual that pre-depends should be used sparingly, for a number
of reasons.

	Chris Pimlott (IANADD)


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