Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:34:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004191832120.74915-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20000419182141.A33170@tao.thought.org>
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Gary Kline wrote:
> This may be a wee bit obvious, but how about compressing everything
> on all 4 CD's--except perhaps the *.TXT files or recompressing
> everything with bzip2?
You're right, it is obvious :-) Take a look sometime at how much stuff on
the CDs is uncompressed.
Using bzip2 for packages creates an ugly "universal" dependency which I
don't think would be worth the gain.
Kris
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