From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 24 11: 1:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 798BE14CD2 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:01:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14380; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:01:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200001241901.OAA14380@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0001222017550K.00537@rbtBSD.intranet> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:01:11 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Rod Taylor Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzi Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Alex Zepeda Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-Jan-00 Rod Taylor wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, you wrote: >> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Rod Taylor wrote: >> >> > Personally, I'd like to see less stuff in the system source for >> > smaller installs and lower compile time leaving it up to me to >> > customize the individual stuff thats installed. Unless bzip is used >> > by > 99.9% of the FreeBSD installs, I'm willing to let it >> > 'auto-install itself'. >> >> What if we began to use bzip2 instead of gzip for things like man pages, >> or releases, etc? >> >> I think gzip is somewhat like compress, in that it might never go away >> completely, but it's generally been superceded by (IMO) bzip2. > > Agreed, then it'd be useful. I also noticed a message Jordan sent through the > list oneday mentioning the possible use of Bzip2 for a new package structure. > I do believe that the system should have bzip in it, but because it's being > used by freebsd internals itself, not because a person may use it at one point. > Make gzip the port in 5.0, and bzip the root compressor... :) The new install system is probably going to use zip rather than bzip2. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message