F21 System Wide Change: lbzip2 as default bzip2 implementation

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Thu Apr 3 07:07:13 UTC 2014


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
>> ** possibly adjust spec files to require or build-require lbzip2 instead of
>> bzip2.
> Is this necessary?

I don't think so. A better way would be to change them to depend on
the actual executables they use, /usr/bin/bzip2 etc. Naturally, the
lbzip2/bzip2 alternative packaging needs to be properly done so that
this is possible, but I assume that's going to be done in any case.


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