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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
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> Bzip2, not bunzip2.  Do you really care about the time to compress
> packages?

not personally, but it might be an issue (maybe a minor one, ok)
when building the packages.

But so, you mean that there is no block sorting involved in bzip
decompression ? I do not remember the details...

> > 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.

probably i was missing context, i thought the discussion was on
replacing gzip with bzip2 as the standard compession tool (not just
for packages).

	cheers
	luigi


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