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? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org <> bfeldman@tislabs.com \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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