Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:14:17 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <200207080714.g687EH6t047234@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: Doug Barton's message of Jul 7, 11:47pm
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> From: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org> > Date: Sun 7 Jul, 2002 > Subject: Re: Package system flaws? > One of the reasons I suggested the "compress the binaries, then compress > the metadata plus binary tarball" method is that it is more space > efficient. Compressing the "metadata + binary tarball" just lost you the ability to access the metadata without uncompressing the whole caboodle. It isn't _all_ about space (but space helps a lot). See my earlier suggestion which was basically "compress the binaries, then _archive_ the metadata plus binary tarball". Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk> <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>; "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>; <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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