From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 23 6: 5:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (blaubaer.kn-bremen.de [195.37.179.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 148E1150D7; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 06:05:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from saturn.kn-bremen.de (uucp@localhost) by blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with UUCP id OAA08367; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 14:06:04 +0100 Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.9.3/8.8.5) id OAA75362; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 14:03:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 14:03:44 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <200001231303.OAA75362@saturn.kn-bremen.de> To: chuckr@picnic.mat.net Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) X-Newsgroups: local.list.freebsd.current In-Reply-To: References: <20000122123109.E59732@shadow.blackdawn.com> Organization: home Cc: Will Andrews , Shigeyuki Fukushima , current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you write: >... >A case would have to be built that bzip2 does something critical that >cannot be done without bzip2. Else, it stays as a fine port. Heck, emacs >is a fine port too, but it'll never get into the base system. Very true, but i can actually think of one thing were bzip2 would really be useful: to better compress the kernel on install floppies so you could keep more things in it. (like ptys and pass which would make fixit more useful, or pppoe which was thrown out too recently if i'm not mistaken.) Btw you could probably also kgzip the loader, that would free up some space too. Regards, -- Juergen Lock (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message