Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:52:25 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> To: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> Cc: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001241351170.254-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001241314370.14446-100000@penelope.skunk.org>
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Ben Rosengart wrote: > 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? Again, lemmie get on my soap box, and ask have you looked at the man page, and compared the memory required when using -s to the memory required by gzip? - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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