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> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: romain@orebokech.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:37:36 -0400
> 
>     Sorry, I wasn't clear enough: I meant that the files should not be
>     compressed on systems where gzip isn't part of the default
>     installation, even if the specific machine where "make install" runs
>     happens to have gzip.
> 
> Why not?  It seems to me that if the given machine
> has gzip there is no harm in using it.

Because, unlike on GNU and Unix systems, the installed tree is
frequently moved to other machines or archived to become a binary
distribution.