Joaco wrote :

> Package content has grown so much, that most stuff I see in
> the Linux community is being repackaged using bzip2, rather
> than the old gzip.

That because most stuff you see is source-code and when its pure text
there's a lot to gain from using bzip2 instead of gzip. But when it
comes to compressing stripped binaries the difference is only a few
percent.
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