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Date:      Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:04:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>
To:        Rod Taylor <rod@zort.on.ca>
Cc:        Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001221703020.4454-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <0001221728060I.00537@rbtBSD.intranet>

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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Rod Taylor wrote:

> Personally, I'd like to see less stuff in the system source for
> smaller installs and lower compile time leaving it up to me to
> customize the individual stuff thats installed.  Unless bzip is used
> by > 99.9% of the FreeBSD installs, I'm willing to let it
> 'auto-install itself'.

What if we began to use bzip2 instead of gzip for things like man pages,
or releases, etc?

I think gzip is somewhat like compress, in that it might never go away
completely, but it's generally been superceded by (IMO) bzip2.

- alex



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