From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 23 22:36:25 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 62C1B152A0 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:36:19 -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 WAA16410; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:36:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA45891; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:36:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:36:16 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Chuck Robey Cc: 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: <20000123223616.C44712@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 01:19:32AM -0500 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 Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 01:19:32AM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > No, I said ask me again in 18 months, not NOW. Even if it didn't have the > memory problem, gzip has greater compatibility and does the minimum > job. It's not required for the base system. BUT, if we bzip2'ed the base system distribution, we'd be able to fit more Packages on the 1st CDROM, and that is a BIG win. With it in the base system, we could also make pkg_add understand bzip2'ed packages -- again a BIG win as we could then fit more packages on the 1st CDROM. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message