Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 20:15:26 -0500 From: Rod Taylor <rod@zort.on.ca> To: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>, 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: <0001222017550K.00537@rbtBSD.intranet> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001221703020.4454-100000@localhost> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001221703020.4454-100000@localhost>
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, you wrote: > 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 completely, but it's generally been superceded by (IMO) bzip2. Agreed, then it'd be useful. I also noticed a message Jordan sent through the list oneday mentioning the possible use of Bzip2 for a new package structure. I do believe that the system should have bzip in it, but because it's being used by freebsd internals itself, not because a person may use it at one point. Make gzip the port in 5.0, and bzip the root compressor... :) -- Rod Taylor Partner of Zort (zort.on.ca) -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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