Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 12:35:55 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.org, winter@jurai.net, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, pst@pst.org, des@ofug.org, imp@village.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c installUpgrade Message-ID: <29028.1017866155@winston.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> of "Wed, 03 Apr 2002 13:27:03 EST." <200204031827.g33IR39r046085@aldan.algebra.com>
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> Oh, "experience" -- what a great marketing word! It isn't pleasant, > if each package is 20% bigger than it can be (.gz vs. bz2) and someone > is advocating another 20% (?) bump (.zip vs. tar.gz). And why? Because > we can't figure out the best place to extract it in? If you honestly think that "where to extract things" completely sums up this problem and why you might want to prefer one format over another then you have a very monofocused view of package management, one too highly focused to be actually useful. I also feel a little like I'm having a discussion with Terry Lambert here, where it doesn't matter whether we're discussing the most appropriate implementation language or how to maximize performance in the design, it always comes down to transitive closure! :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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