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Re: some statistics on using bz2 for packages



Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> wrote:
>
> Since gzip is essential, nothing needs to declare a dependency on it.  Ditto
> for tar.  Since bzip2 is not essential, I suppose you could argue that the 
> tar package deserves a 'suggests bzip2', except that since tar is part of
> base, this won't get noticed by many people...

But now that we will have Enhances, bzip2 can "enhance" tar :)
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