Re: WITHOUT_BZIP2?

Lexi Winter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Enji Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote in <[email protected]>:
> > On Mar 29, 2026, at 9:34 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We should probably drop both options outright, since we've never
> > provided corresponding options for gzip, xz / lzma, or zstd.
> 
> If there was a way to build bootloaders without bzip2 support, that
> could save boot loader blocks for other things. That’s one case I can
> think of where it makes sense making the support work as desired.

but this would need to be a different option, since you wouldn't want to
build the entire system without bzip2 support just for a smaller loader.

similar to how WITHOUT_ZFS and WITHOUT_LOADER_ZFS work today.
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