On 16 Apr 2016 02:25, Alexander Miller wrote: > when I looked at the Makefile I noticed it has incomplete compression > support. Most notably the screen and uninstall targets didn't support > switching to a different compression type. More precisely, uninstall > supported only switching from gz or bz2 (but not xz) to uncompressed. > The screen target had no explicit compression support and when it > worked for compressed files it was pure luck. > The patches 2 and 3 provide new recipes for both targets that can > handle any combination of the supported compression types. Any file, > installed or source, may be uncompressed or compressed with any of > gz, bz2, or xz. Whether you compress before or after screen and uninstall > doesn't matter any more. imo, we should just drop all compression support. distros already handle this properly and pick whatever they want/need. if no one is using this code, then it's just sucking up space. -mike
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