On 30/08/17 05:14, Darac Marjal wrote: > So, because gzip has such a market share in the Linux world, it makes > sense for it to be included in the debian base install (in fact, apt and > various utilities rely on it, so it needs to be there). Zip files, > though, are much less common in the Linux world. There is nothing in the > base install of debian that requires zip files, so therefore the zip > program is not installed. *GNU/Linux world* Also it is worth noting that tar + gzip will do solid compression (it compresses the archive as a whole), while zip compresses each file independently. The zip approach gives worse compression, but extracting a single file is faster, since only that file has to be uncompressed. -- Do not eat animals, respect them as you respect people. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+(become+OR+eat)+vegan
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