> Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote: > >> Because gzip is spread wider, we use this instead of bzip2/7zip. > > > > I think the size saved by compressing FPC with bz2 would be much > > greater than the size of downloading and installing a bzip2 extractor. > > Yes, but it requires extra work :) Just a side remark, FreeBSD has bzip2 in base since 5.x.