From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jan 2 00:06:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA23847 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 00:06:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA23807 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 00:06:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.89]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA3F4F; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 09:06:02 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 09:13:12 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Policy on bzip2? Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 02-Jan-99 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > >> Just make sure the new releases of FreeBSD include bzip as standard then. Or >> make >> it so that the dependencies require bzip. Although when we are going to bzip > > Is what I've been using, based on the egcs port which uses a .bz2 to save > several megabytes. That's better... Would be great for stuff like DDD, Netscape & XFree. > Just as a lot of ports require GNU Make to build, which isn't in the base tree > but is built as a dependency, there's no problem as far as I can see with > adding a similar dependency on bzip2. Aye I know... Must have been sleeping from new year's eve, still. =) Great idea IMHO... --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... Network/Security Specialist BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message