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@@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ This allows:
before, install plzip and all your Lzip operations are now parallelized
automatically.
+Additional lzip-compressor and lzip-decompressor are provided, both as virtual
+packages as well as alternatives in /usr/bin. This allows one to use a mixed
+mode of setting lzip alternatives globally, such as using plzip for
+decompression and lzip for compression.
+
3. Best practice
----------------
@@ -86,6 +91,9 @@ To make the best use of Lzip, the following should be considered:
implementation (e.g. use 'Depends: lzip-alternative | lzip' or
'Depends: lzip-alternative | plzip', not 'Depends: lzip').
+ * use compressor or decompressor explicitly (e.g. use
+ 'Depends: lzip-decompressor | lunzip' if you don't need to compress files).
+
4. See also
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