From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 24 14:57: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97C41153FE; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:57:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89CBB125BB; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:23:15 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200001242116.QAA30711@server.baldwin.cx> References: <200001242116.QAA30711@server.baldwin.cx> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:23:13 +0100 To: John Baldwin From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzi Cc: Alex Zepeda , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Rod Taylor Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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, 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