On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:07:46 -0500 (EST), Eric Warnke wrote: > In contrast, with this round of cuts you are asking for and removing > packages that are not neglected or obsolete but packages at that are > regularly used by members of this list. That's _the_ opportunity for such members to step forward and maintain the packages in Fedora Extras, provided that the previous maintainer at Red Hat hasn't planned to do that. > No one has attempted to bzip2 packages that > might save space. I remember a long discussion about time/space tradeoffs. bzip2 uncompression is a lot slower than gzip.