Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:17:24 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001241314370.14446-100000@penelope.skunk.org> In-Reply-To: <v0422080fb4b207279756@[195.238.1.121]>
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > And the only cost is the slight expansion of the amount of disk > space required to store the source code in /usr/src and the binaries > in /usr/bin [...] And the time and disk space required to make world. No thank you. Remember that the only win here is if bzip is used in an infrastructural capacity (e.g. for packages and other install stuff), and it has been pointed out that the savings on disk space are offset by the additional memory requirements. If it won't be used for infrastructure, then why can't it stay in ports? -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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