Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:23:13 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Rod Taylor <rod@zort.on.ca> Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzi Message-ID: <v0422080db4b272fdeb1d@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <200001242116.QAA30711@server.baldwin.cx> References: <200001242116.QAA30711@server.baldwin.cx>
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At 4:16 PM -0500 2000/1/24, John Baldwin wrote: > Since zip integrates the > compression and archiving in one file format, you can look in the zip header, > find the file you want, and then extract and uncompress just its data. This > functionality is key in the design of the new packaging system as packages > will be responsible for extracting themselves in the new system. Hmm. Okay, that's an argument I can buy -- I may not like the resulting choice (for personal reasons, if nothing else), but I can buy the argument. Thanks! -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy _________________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/726.93.11 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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