Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:57:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 25mb vs 300mb ports Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.58.0404231455410.13525@onorysvfu.ybpny> In-Reply-To: <22145.208.247.148.13.1082756027.squirrel@webmail.alienwebshop.com> References: <22145.208.247.148.13.1082756027.squirrel@webmail.alienwebshop.com>
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On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Peter Leftwich wrote: > At the FreeBSD.Org ports website, however, it says the total size of > the tarball (tar/gzip) is 25mb. Is this a matter of compressed > versus uncompressed? Why the discrepancy? That's part of it, the other part is that the ports consist of a lot of small files, so you have a significant block/directory size overhead as well. KeS
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