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Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:14:55 +0000
From:      George Cox <gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk>
To:        David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches)
Message-ID:  <20000124111455.A5739@extremis.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20000123223616.C44712@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 10:36:16PM -0800
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On 23/01 22:36, David O'Brien wrote:

> BUT, if we bzip2'ed the base system distribution, we'd be able to fit
> more Packages on the 1st CDROM, and that is a BIG win.  With it in the

This would indeed be good.  Let's also remember that 'tar' has built-in
support for bzip2 so it's not as if it would have no other programs to work
with it.  :-)

best;


gjvc

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[gjvc]


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