From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 8 14:23: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7388B37B405 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:23:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C5743E09 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:23:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0159.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.159] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17RfyD-0005NX-00; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 17:22:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3D2A0285.559EF2E@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 14:22:13 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Valentine Cc: Garrett Wollman , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? References: <200207081946.g68Jk5NB071231@dotar.thuvia.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Valentine wrote: > > From: Garrett Wollman > > You could also have one that meant `the contents of this member file are > > compressed', or one that meant `the contents of this member file are > > another archive'. Perhaps both at the same time. > > As much as I hate to rely on it in general, for specific applications > filename conventions can be very useful. What do your extensions do > that a suffix of -gtk.tar.gz in the archive TOC doesn't? Access to metadata in archives with compressed contents without the need to decompress everything. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message