working with pciutils-2.2.4

[Mike Frysinger]

the latest version of pciutils has moved to gzipping the pci.ids file by 
default.  hal was updated to link against zlib when linking against pciutils, 
but that's just a link time fix ... runtime still needs updating.  there was 
some discussion back in Oct 2006 about a solution involving a cache file and 
how at the time it seemed like pointless work to address a non-existent 
issue, but i think now would be a good time to pick it back up.

i looked through the history of the file (hald/ids.c) and going back to the 
pre-mmap commit and adding transparent support for reading a .gz file via 
zlib is trivial (since mmap obviously wont work), but i'd like to see what 
direction the code will actually go before spinning cycles on work that goes 
in a different direction and thus wont be accepted ;).
-mike
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