-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-08-11 at 17:41 +0200, Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:16:32 +0200 (CEST), Carlos E. R. wrote:
Plus, there is a "/usr/share/man/man1p/compress.1p.gz" file that belongs to "man-pages-2.41-11", but no compress binary anywhere.
compress was removed because it used a patented compression algorithm ( I'm not shure if the patent is still valid though) and gzip can uncomress archives produced by compress.
Ah, I see. I think I remember now reading about it. The man page could then include a note by suse/novell explaining the removal. It does say that the algorithms are patented, though. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGvuY+tTMYHG2NR9URArikAJ9y08uijgg3iQ6IjQ2ld0NLpjyGLwCfSqPN tHYNo25nQgycrBTO1YeAF8s= =Mtim -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org