Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression

H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-22T21:05:20Z

Alistair John Strachan wrote:
>
> I would, but if it's a "valid concern" that gzip is a few hundred KB larger,
> and the community would not graciously receive such work, there's not much
> point, is there? :-)
>
> Seriously, though, if I understand gzip correctly, it uses deflate/zlib
> internally. Why, in that case, does /bin/gzip not (dynamically) link against
> libz? If a first step was fixing that, a second could be linking dynamically
> against libbz2 and 'liblzma', and making it all compile-time configurable.
>

Because gzip predates zlib...

-hpa