From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jun 2 9:27: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E9F937B43C for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 09:27:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f52GQt027456; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 09:26:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f52GQsY34410; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 09:26:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 09:26:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200106021626.f52GQsY34410@vashon.polstra.com> To: ports@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: ernst@jollem.com Subject: Re: Re: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ? In-Reply-To: <20010602174119.A4802@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> References: <200106021038.f52AcXo50376@mail.uic-in.net> <200106021534.f52FYrT34283@vashon.polstra.com> <20010602174119.A4802@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA 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 In article <20010602174119.A4802@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl>, Ernst de Haan wrote: > > Agreed, but why bother? 5 MB is _nothing_. The ports collection > > isn't a space hog, and it never has been one. > > Well, what about being sensible and reasonable? Why spend disk space if you > don't have to? The ports system is constantly improving, as it should. It is not a savings in disk space unless you ignore the opportunity costs. Time and effort spent working toward negligible savings is time and effort that is no longer available for more effective improvements. 5 MB isn't even worth _arguing_ about ... so I'll have nothing more to say on this thread. :-) John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message