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.