Re: Zutils vs single compressor utilities

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> > So zutils' solution for dealing with gzip 1.4 and earlier is to overwrite any 
> > non-renamed gzip-only script.
>
> It sounds like that solution isn't working well in practice.
> Perhaps it should rename them to gz* instead?  That would
> give a hint to Debian etc. as to the preferred names.

But how can zutils' "make install" know that the zcat it is about to 
rename is from gzip instead of from a previous install of zutils?

Moreover, I don't think distros would like a package that renames files 
from other packages.

And certainly the best hint we can give to Debian etc. is to rename the 
scripts in gzip itself.