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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:25:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami)
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com
Cc:        obrien@NUXI.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/news/tin Makefile ports/news/tin/files md5
Message-ID:  <199903302225.OAA41075@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199903300812.AAA37985@apollo.backplane.com> (message from Matthew Dillon on Tue, 30 Mar 1999 00:12:53 -0800 (PST))
References:  <19990327085310.A87737@relay.nuxi.com> <14490.922553771@critter.freebsd.dk> <19990329232243.A79481@dragon.nuxi.com> <199903300759.XAA37851@apollo.backplane.com> <19990330000135.A20563@relay.nuxi.com> <199903300812.AAA37985@apollo.backplane.com>

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 * From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>

 *     There's an old axiom in computer science about things filling all
 *     available space.  Believe me, bzip2 is not going to solve this sort
 *     of problem.

I know about that, but that doesn't stop us from going to a more
efficient compressing algorithm (assuming the speed/memory consumption
problem is not too bad).

The savings are proportional to the total size of the collection, and
that's a good 10% saved any day.

On the other hand, I don't see much point in the "should we mark the
gimp PS manual NO_CDROM" debate.  The amount saved is fixed, and the
old axiom applies.

We already have Steve trimming things out as (un)necessary, you should
just leave this stuff to him.  Setting it NO_CDROM is going to remove
any possibility of it showing up for future releases even if we have
enough space (hey Jordan, when are we going to that 10-CD set?)

-W


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