>>>>> "SF" == Stefano Ferri <ferriste at gmail.com> writes:
SF> I don't think it's a matter of different compression algorithms
SF> handled or not by describe(). The problem seems located in the
SF> ebuild:
Oh. How embarrassing! I completely missed that.
That snippet (which I didn't quote) implies that some lisps uncompress
automatically. At least, it seems, for gz.
-JimC [sheepishly]
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