From eugen@grosbein.net Fri Jul 29 06:24:10 2022 X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4LvHYT01kNz4X4KG; Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:24:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Received: from hz.grosbein.net (hz.grosbein.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:c2c:26d8::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "hz.grosbein.net", Issuer "hz.grosbein.net" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4LvHYR5SPNz3TTB; Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:24:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Received: from eg.sd.rdtc.ru (root@eg.sd.rdtc.ru [62.231.161.221] (may be forged)) by hz.grosbein.net (8.16.1/8.16.1) with ESMTPS id 26T6OKdq032468 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:24:21 GMT (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) X-Envelope-From: eugen@grosbein.net X-Envelope-To: d@delphij.net Received: from [10.58.0.11] (dadvw [10.58.0.11] (may be forged)) by eg.sd.rdtc.ru (8.16.1/8.16.1) with ESMTPS id 26T6OIkF060488 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NOT); Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:24:18 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Subject: Re: Proposal: remove /usr/bin/minigzip To: d@delphij.net, freebsd-current , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <0d8e1b38-bcd2-0875-1864-3385c502646d@delphij.net> From: Eugene Grosbein Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:24:10 +0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 List-Id: Technical discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0d8e1b38-bcd2-0875-1864-3385c502646d@delphij.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,SHORTCIRCUIT autolearn=disabled version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Report: * -0.0 SHORTCIRCUIT No description available. * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on hz.grosbein.net X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4LvHYR5SPNz3TTB X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=fail (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of eugen@grosbein.net does not designate 2a01:4f8:c2c:26d8::2 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=eugen@grosbein.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.10 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; R_SPF_FAIL(1.00)[-all]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,freebsd-current@freebsd.org]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:24940, ipnet:2a01:4f8::/32, country:DE]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; FREEFALL_USER(0.00)[eugen]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[grosbein.net]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N 29.07.2022 13:12, Xin Li пишет: > Hi, > > I'd like to remove /usr/bin/minigzip , a patch is available at: > > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35979 > > The minigzip is originally an example application shipped with zlib to demonstrate how to use it to implement basic functionality of gzip. It was connected to the base system in 1997, mainly because there wasn't a GPL-free implementation of gzip(1): > > https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/usr.bin/minigzip?id=85e55f7ab8473307fb16c5bce8c2e933a317215b > > Now we already have a GPL-free gzip(1) implementation in base system for quite a while, so it seems that there isn't much value of keeping minigzip around. A quick grep suggests that it's not being used by the base system anywhere, nor in the ports tree. > > Any objections? Have you considered embedded applications (crunchgen etc.)? In 13.1/amd64, /usr/bin/minigzip binary is about 11KB and links with libc and libz only. OTOH, /usr/bin/gzip is about six times larger (64KB) and additionally needs libbz2, liblzma, libmd and libthr.