Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 07:25:28 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/cflow/patches patch-aa Message-ID: <199510050625.HAA07484@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199510050455.VAA07443@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Oct 4, 95 09:55:27 pm
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As Satoshi Asami wrote: > > Joerg, there are so many ports out there with gzip -9 in there, and > now is not the time to go fix all of them. :> Apparently not, but since you've just been around on _this_ one. > Besides, I don't think any conclusion came out of the discussion a > while ago. However, if you ask me, I'd rather keep the -9 in there > (or whatever the "best" compression is, in terms of compression ratio, > regardless of speed). I think most of our users out there use binary > packages, so the extra time we pay, will save space for thousands of > them. :) Hmm, but for < 10 % gain? Anyway, i've been confusing this with the gzipp'ed cat page. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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