From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 23 19:32:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 642C414FFC for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 19:32:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA15731 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 19:32:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA44733 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 19:32:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 19:32:32 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) Message-ID: <20000123193232.A44712@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <86duop$2n8d$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200001230926.KAA81850@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001230926.KAA81850@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>; from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de on Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 10:26:48AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 10:26:48AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Saving 10% or 20% on disk space is not worth wasting >= 10 times more > CPU time than gzip. Disk space is cheap nowadays, but upgrading to a > CPU that is 10 times faster is not. And just how do I increase the space on a CDROM??? Go look how many port distribution files on your last CDROM set were in bzip2 format -- there is a reason for that. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message