From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 22 22:51:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw01.execpc.com (mailgw01.execpc.com [169.207.2.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F300514F6A for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 22:51:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Received: from woodstock.monkey.net (obica-2-185.mdm.mkt.execpc.com [169.207.90.123]) by mailgw01.execpc.com (8.9.1) id AAA06027; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 00:51:42 -0600 Received: from pobox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodstock.monkey.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E26E97; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 00:54:46 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/16/1999 To: Alex Zepeda Cc: Rod Taylor , Akinori MUSHA aka knu , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:04:34 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 00:54:46 -0600 From: Jon Hamilton Message-Id: <20000123065446.6E26E97@woodstock.monkey.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , 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 } I think gzip is somewhat like compress, in that it might never go away } completely, but it's generally been superceded by (IMO) bzip2.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