Archive fetch problem

[William Siegrist]

On Oct 13, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> Well, we usually don't want to mess with settings that are explicitly
>> specified, because that may well be what the user really wants. It would
>> certainly be nice to fix this for users that do just want the new
>> default, but is that worth meddling with the settings of those that don't?
> 
> Not sure why anyone would use gzip over bzip---on a mac.
> 
> It sounds like we need to deploy archives for both gzip and bzip then.
> 


I don't see why we need to honor their local setting for the pre-built packages. If they want a package from packages.macports.org, they get it as a tbz2.  Why waste the disk space keeping 2 types? 

-Bill