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Date:      Sat, 02 Feb 2002 23:01:48 -0500
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/vim Makefile distinfo 
Message-ID:  <200202030401.g1341mf60109@green.bikeshed.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>  of "Sat, 02 Feb 2002 19:18:58 PST." <20020202191858.B30749@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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"David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 03:16:04PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > Have you talked to the author about perhaps makeing larger patchfiles
> > like patch-0-to-20.gz or even patch-0-to-50.gz or something?
> 
> We would not want him to do that -- it would include patches we do not
> want.

Why would we not want patches?  So what if they don't apply to us if 
concatenating and bzip2ing the whole thing will result in much more space 
savings than a million separate bzip2ed patches each with their little 
dictionary to work from and not be able to compress well?

-- 
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