Re: Field compression
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:28:33PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk> wrote:
> > I remember similar scheme was proposed some time ago... and a nice flamewar
> > as a result.
> >
> > Imagine what happens when e.g. rar maintaineer decides to compress
> > his package with zip, and
> > zip package is compressed with rar...
> > In other words, another set of dependencies to take care of
>
> What are you talking about? I was talking about a random idea for improving
> compression of mbox or package like files. You seem to be talking about
> changing the compression used in debs.
>
ah, yes...
I was under the impression it was about debs... maybe because
it sounded exactly like the previous discussion about debs...
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