From owner-cvs-all Thu Apr 4 8:11:13 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [62.232.68.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92E3737B426; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 08:11:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from lobster.originative.co.uk (lobster [62.232.68.81]) by mailgate.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45391D169; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 17:10:58 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c installUpgrade From: Paul Richards To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Mikhail Teterin , 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 In-Reply-To: <28699.1017857530@winston.freebsd.org> References: <28699.1017857530@winston.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 04 Apr 2002 18:11:11 +0200 Message-Id: <1017936671.912.4.camel@lobster.freebsd-services.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 20:12, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > But .zip is noticeably bigger than .tar.gz. Not to mention, .tar.bz2. > > And the package size is what's of the highest priority, IMHO, since > > disks and especially bandwidth don't grow nearly as fast as the CPU > > speeds. > > You must live outside the US, that's all I can say. That assertion > is completely false here. > About the only place it is true is the US. Bandwidth is by far the most limiting factor for most people in the world. Only a tiny percentage of people are on ADSL in the UK for instance. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message