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Date:      Thu, 5 Oct 1995 07:25:28 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/cflow/patches patch-aa
Message-ID:  <199510050625.HAA07484@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199510050455.VAA07443@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Oct 4, 95 09:55:27 pm

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As Satoshi Asami wrote:
> 
> Joerg, there are so many ports out there with gzip -9 in there, and
> now is not the time to go fix all of them. :>

Apparently not, but since you've just been around on _this_ one.

> Besides, I don't think any conclusion came out of the discussion a
> while ago.  However, if you ask me, I'd rather keep the -9 in there
> (or whatever the "best" compression is, in terms of compression ratio,
> regardless of speed).  I think most of our users out there use binary
> packages, so the extra time we pay, will save space for thousands of
> them. :)

Hmm, but for < 10 % gain?  Anyway, i've been confusing this with the
gzipp'ed cat page.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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