Archive fetch problem

[Joshua Root]

On 2011-10-14 12:57 , William Siegrist wrote:
> 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? 

I agree. There hasn't been an announcement sent out about binaries yet,
so when there is, let's mention that users should check this setting.

- Josh