From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 17 20:27: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from norn.ca.eu.org (h24-64-231-25.cg.shawcable.net [24.64.231.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5C337B71A for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 20:27:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cpiazza@norn.ca.eu.org) Received: by norn.ca.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F365814C; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:26:50 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:26:50 -0700 From: Chris Piazza To: Dinesh Nair Cc: Kris Kennaway , Eric M Logan , "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: ports vs. packages... Message-ID: <20010317212650.B57776@norn.ca.eu.org> References: <20010317125349.E22316@mollari.cthul.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i-jp2 In-Reply-To: ; from dinesh@alphaque.com on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 05:06:29AM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 05:06:29AM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > There are three main benefits I can think of: > > the fourth, for me is > > * pulling down the gzipped sources off a 56k dialup is a lot faster > than pulling down binary packages off a web/ftp site if a cdrom is > not available for some reason or another. Uhh.. not always. For example, mozilla: -rw-rw-r-- 1 569 207 12903219 Mar 11 17:07 mozilla-0.8_1,1.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 569 207 23224401 Feb 19 19:23 mozilla-source-0.8.tar.bz2 Okay, but that might be unusual, right? Here's a random one that I used: gqview tarball: -rw-r--r-- 1 569 207 361644 Sep 11 2000 gqview-0.9.1.tar.gz package: -rw-rw-r-- 1 569 207 221155 Mar 11 22:10 gqview-0.9.1.tgz Do you have any examples of the package being significantly larger than the tarball? -Chris -- Chris Piazza (yawn...) Calgary, AB, Canada cpiazza@jaxon.net -or- cpiazza@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message