From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 22 17: 4:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.snfc21.pbi.net (mta4.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA24614F8C for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:04:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jazepeda@pacbell.net) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org ([207.214.149.56]) by mta4.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with ESMTP id <0FOR000MQKBMW6@mta4.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:04:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B498918D3; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:04:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:04:34 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) In-reply-to: <0001221728060I.00537@rbtBSD.intranet> To: Rod Taylor Cc: Akinori MUSHA aka knu , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Rod Taylor wrote: > Personally, I'd like to see less stuff in the system source for > smaller installs and lower compile time leaving it up to me to > customize the individual stuff thats installed. Unless bzip is used > by > 99.9% of the FreeBSD installs, I'm willing to let it > 'auto-install itself'. What if we began to use bzip2 instead of gzip for things like man pages, or releases, etc? I think gzip is somewhat like compress, in that it might never go away completely, but it's generally been superceded by (IMO) bzip2. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message