From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jun 1 5:29:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from heinz.jollem.com (c104187.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.104.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36F4737B42C; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 05:29:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ernst@heinz.jollem.com) Received: (from ernst@localhost) by heinz.jollem.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f51CRJr22625; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ernst) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:19 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan To: George Reid Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ? Message-ID: <20010601142719.A22596@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> References: <20010601134436.C15784@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from greid@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:21:44PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > This sounds like a fairly good idea. If we could use `standard' tools for this > > then that would be the best solution, IMO. > > Indeed. I'd like the idea to be thrown around a bit before I actually sit > down and do anything about it, though :) Yeah, it's not that we *need* to do something right away, but as the ports tree still seems to be growing exponentially, we may have to find a way of compressing it all a bit at some stage. On the other hand, disk space per dollar is also increasing, and so is the user-average transfer rate for downloading from the internet ;-) /Ernst -- Ernst de Haan Java Architect Jollem Information Technology "Come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message