From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 23 12:55:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A87B14CA6; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 12:55:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA66594; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 15:01:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 15:01:23 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Juergen Lock Cc: Will Andrews , Shigeyuki Fukushima , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) In-Reply-To: <200001231303.OAA75362@saturn.kn-bremen.de> 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 Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Juergen Lock wrote: > In article you write: > >... > >A case would have to be built that bzip2 does something critical that > >cannot be done without bzip2. Else, it stays as a fine port. Heck, emacs > >is a fine port too, but it'll never get into the base system. > > Very true, but i can actually think of one thing were bzip2 would > really be useful: to better compress the kernel on install floppies > so you could keep more things in it. (like ptys and pass which > would make fixit more useful, or pppoe which was thrown out too > recently if i'm not mistaken.) > > Btw you could probably also kgzip the loader, that would free up > some space too. Juergen Lock: It's Better! Chuck: Better doesn't count, only need, functionality and compatibility. Juergen Lock: It's Better! How come I get the feeling that you didn't read the post? > > Regards, > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message