From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 6 15:18:14 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 828D937B67D; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:17:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f16NHAQ87242; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:17:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:17:10 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Jordan Hubbard , mi@aldan.algebra.com, sheldonh@uunet.co.za, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...) Message-ID: <20010206151710.A86851@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <13548.981500989@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200102062313.f16NDus45358@iguana.aciri.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102062313.f16NDus45358@iguana.aciri.org>; from rizzo@aciri.org on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:13:56PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:13:56PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > Bzip2 has a more liberal license and is a better (more efficient > > > usually) compressor. It is also being actively maintained. Some Linux > > > distros come with man-pages bzip2-ed instead of gzip-ed too. IMHO, we > > > should use it. > > my understanding is that bzip* is _way_ slower than gzip > due to the algorithm used. Bzip2, not bunzip2. Do you really care about the time to compress packages? > Unless we really care the 5-10% savings in size, i'd rather _not_ use > it, I personally do for the 1st CD. > for portability and backward compatibility reasons. What portability reasons? It is stock in NetBSD and Solaris 8. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message