From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 24 11:34:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A61D152A5; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:33:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA08860; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:32:50 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000124095417.A75151@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <86ghar$13c3$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200001241116.MAA41036@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <20000124095417.A75151@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:33:21 -0500 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:54 AM -0800 1/24/00, David O'Brien wrote: >On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:16:32PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > And just how do I increase the space on a CDROM??? > > > > Include another CD-ROM. > >You are missing the point. The installation CDROM only shows >you the packages on that CDROM, this gives newbies the impression >we don't have very many packages. Then we should fix that aspect of the distribution, because no matter how good this bzip2 compression is, you're still going to have a huge number of packages which will not fit on that first CD. The space gained by using bzip2 is nearly irrelevant compared to the space needed to have a "more impressive list" of packages on that first CD-ROM. You've been arguing this for quite a while, and there has been no groundswell of support for your position. Do you think "just one more" message on this topic is going to convince anyone? Could we just table this discussion for a few months, and see what everyone thinks about it then? No one has argued to ban usage of bzip2, they're just saying it does not need to be in the base system. I can not fathom why that bugs you so much. Given some more time and maybe a few more improvements, and bzip2 may find itself popular enough to justify it being in the base system. Until then, it seems to me that it works just fine as a port. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message