From owner-cvs-all Sat Mar 27 3:20: 3 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ady.warpnet.ro (unknown [194.102.224.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFE67150C9; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 03:19:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Received: from localhost (ady@localhost) by ady.warpnet.ro (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA22491; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 13:20:17 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 13:20:16 +0200 (EET) From: Adrian Penisoara To: Satoshi Asami Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, ache@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/news/tin Makefile ports/news/tin/files md5 In-Reply-To: <199903260752.XAA01445@bubble.didi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hi, On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * > don't depend on bzip, ... > * > * IMHO, this is a bad move. We direly need to save space WRT distfiles > * anywhere we can. The distfiles and package CDROMs are becoming much less > * useful as we can't put as much on them as we need to. > > I agree. The bzip port/package is just a one-time cost to save space > on many others. > > Maybe I should add to the handbook that bzip2'd distfiles are to be > preferred over gzip'd versions.... Then please suggest that bzip2 should be integrated in the base distribution too; would there be licensing problems ? > > Satoshi > My $0.02 Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message