Marcel used another config option to decide how new files should be compressed. My suggestion would be to use bzip2 always when available and $conf['compress'] is enabled and else fall back to gzip.
I'd love to get your input on this matter, because I don't really care.
0 - none 1 - gzip 2 - bzip2
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