From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 19 18:35: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D1B37B554; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:35:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA75357; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:34:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:34:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Gary Kline Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs In-Reply-To: <20000419182141.A33170@tao.thought.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message