Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 21:48:11 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs Message-ID: <20030507214512.C40030-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <20030502071926.GC3258@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Fri, 2 May 2003, David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:33:34PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote: > > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > This is just an announcement that I'm going to add bzip2(1) > > > support to man(1) and makewhatis(1) (catman(1) already has > > > it), and then switch the default compression method from > > > gzip(1) to bzip2(1), for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs. > > > (The latest 4.5 texinfo supports bzip2.) > > > > I don't mean to sound rude, but what is the justification for this? > > It removes the depandancy (well reduces it) on one more GPV'ed binary. :-) > Really - except for a very limited set of streaming applications with hard latency rules, going away from gzip to a BWT based compressors is a Very Good Thing (tm).
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