From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 22 18:23: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4BA314C38 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:22:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from imap.gv.tsc.tdk.com (imap.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.198]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA26811; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:22:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by imap.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA58436; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:22:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA18355; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:22:47 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <200001230222.SAA18355@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:22:47 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(5) 10/07/98) To: Alex Zepeda Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) Cc: Akinori MUSHA aka knu , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Jan 22, 5:04pm, Alex Zepeda wrote: } Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip } What if we began to use bzip2 instead of gzip for things like man pages, } or releases, etc? Doesn't bzip2 require a lot more memory for decompression? As I recall, someone mentioned that this would cause problems for installing releases on machines with only a small amount of RAM. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message