Compressing packages with bzip2 instead gzip?

[Timo Jyrinki]

> The only place I can see bzip2 making sense is on docs, manual pages, xml
> files, and anything that isn't an executable, a library, an
> image/sound/video/other media file, or the holy visage of the the flying
> spaghetti monster.

It would be nice if bzip2:ing those highly-compressable files would make room
for more language packs included on the install CD! Currently eg. not all of
Finnish translations are included on the install CD, so people without network
connection, or eg. configuring wireless network only after install, do not have
the whole translation installed automatically.

Speaking of language files, those also compress better with bz2 even though they
are in mo format:
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1356095 2005-12-07 16:51 LC_MESSAGES-fi.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1590691 2005-12-07 16:52 LC_MESSAGES-fi.tar.gz

(compressed etch's /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES to get those)

-Timo