Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:16:41 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> Cc: nik@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Feature request: Store dist file size somewhere Message-ID: <20000322091641.A60628@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000321221527.C1810@argon.blackdawn.com>; from andrews@technologist.com on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:15:27PM -0500 References: <20000321221527.C1810@argon.blackdawn.com>
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:15:27PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > I personally see nothing wrong with having another 22kbyte (easily > compressed to ~3kb, I imagine) in the tree, but some folks might object. > What do you think? I think those people are silly for keeping their ports collection on floppy disk or typing in by hand from a printout every time they want to use it. Sheesh. At about $10/GB, 22k costs you 0.02 cents. Note also that in many cases, expanding files/md5 by the amount in question will not cause it to overflow into a new block on disk, especially in the usual case of about one distfile. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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