From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jun 2 9:15: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC51737B423 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 09:15:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailc.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f52GF2Y08194 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 18:15:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA16170 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 18:15:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 24634 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Jun 2001 16:14:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 18:14:46 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ? Message-ID: <20010602181446.A24621@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200106021038.f52AcXo50376@mail.uic-in.net> <200106021534.f52FYrT34283@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200106021534.f52FYrT34283@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:34:53AM -0700 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 On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:34:53AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > In article <200106021038.f52AcXo50376@mail.uic-in.net>, Maxim Sobolev > wrote: > > > Actually we could save much more disk space by collapsing one-line > > pkg-comment files into either pkg-descr or Makefile [bikeshed > > pending]. This way we could free about 5MB (5,000 files * 1,024 > > bytes wasted per file) w/o any significant disadvantage. > > Agreed, but why bother? 5 MB is _nothing_. The ports collection > isn't a space hog, and it never has been one. > The disk space that would be saved is quite insignificant, and not really something to be bothered about. More interesting is probably that 5000 inodes would also be saved. This should also make cvs/cvsup of the ports collection somewhat faster. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message