From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 22 17:18: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from goofy.zort.on.ca (cr575310-a.shprd1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.185.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF4CC14F3A for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:17:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rod@zort.on.ca) Received: from rbtBSD.intranet (rbtBSD.zort.on.ca [10.0.0.50]) by goofy.zort.on.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 578FD70; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 20:18:01 -0500 (EST) From: Rod Taylor Reply-To: rod@zort.on.ca Organization: Zort To: Alex Zepeda , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 20:15:26 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0001222017550K.00537@rbtBSD.intranet> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 completely, but it's generally been superceded by (IMO) bzip2.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