Re: [Zutils-bug] Can zutils rename utils to lzutils, so it can coexist with mostly provided by most distros with gzip?

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hi Javier,

Javier wrote:
> Can zutils rename utils to lzutils, so it can coexist with mostly
> provided by most distros with gzip?

This does not make sense because the zutils are not connected to lzip. 
They support 4 compressed formats.

It would be nice if gzip upstream did the right thing renaming their 
tools to gz*, but in the meanwhile there is a procedure documented in 
INSTALL to rename them:

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If you are installing zutils along with GNU gzip and want to keep the 
gzip scripts, the recommended method is to configure gzip as follows:

   ./configure --program-transform-name='s/^z/gz/'

This renames, at installation time, the gzip scripts and man pages to 
'gzcat', 'gzcat.1', etc, avoiding the name clashing with the programs 
and man pages from zutils.
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Best regards,
Antonio.