Shall 'bmp' uncompress automagically?

[Wolfram Sang]

> > since we have 'file_detect_type' in barebox, we could use it to automagically
> > uncompress BMP files. Pseudo-code:
> > 
> > if (file_detect_type(bmp) != BMP) {
> > 	/* No BMP? Try to depack stream */
> > 	ret = uncompress(bmp, unpacked_bmp);
> > 	if (ret < 0 || file_detect_type(unpacked_bmp) != BMP)
> > 		return -ENOBMP;
> > }
> > 
> > Is something like this wanted? Or shall this be done entirely via scripts?
> > 
> > if [ $file is somehow detected as compressed ]
> > 	uncompress $file /bmp
> > 	bmp /bmp
> > 	rm /bmp
> > else
> > 	bmp $file
> > fi
> I prefer the second one

Care to explain why?

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