From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 24 14: 4:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.snfc21.pbi.net (mta4.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25BC14E8C for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:04:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jazepeda@pacbell.net) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org ([207.214.149.4]) by mta4.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with ESMTP id <0FOV004U50RE6W@mta4.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142FA918C9; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:52:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:52:25 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree In-reply-to: To: Ben Rosengart Cc: Brad Knowles , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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