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From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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In-Reply-To: Doug Barton's message of Jul  7, 11:47pm
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To: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org>,
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> From: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org>
> Date: Sun 7 Jul, 2002
> Subject: Re: Package system flaws?

> One of the reasons I suggested the "compress the binaries, then compress
> the metadata plus binary tarball" method is that it is more space
> efficient.

Compressing the "metadata + binary tarball" just lost you the ability to
access the metadata without uncompressing the whole caboodle.

It isn't _all_ about space (but space helps a lot).  See my earlier
suggestion which was basically "compress the binaries, then _archive_
the metadata plus binary tarball".

		Cheers,

		Mark.

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