Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 00:54:46 -0600 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> Cc: Rod Taylor <rod@zort.on.ca>, Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org>, 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: <20000123065446.6E26E97@woodstock.monkey.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:04:34 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001221703020.4454-100000@localhost>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001221703020.4454-100000@localhost>, Alex Zepeda wro te: } 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 did that (for man pages) out of curiosity a year or two ago, and the difference was negligible. bzip2 seems to do better on bigger files as a (very) general rule than on smaller ones. } I think gzip is somewhat like compress, in that it might never go away } completely, but it's generally been superceded by (IMO) bzip2. I don't agree at all, and all you have to do is visit a few web sites and ftp sites' download areas to see why. It's just not ubiquitous, or even close. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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