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Date:      Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:22:47 -0800
From:      Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
To:        Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>
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)
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On Jan 22,  5:04pm, Alex Zepeda wrote:
} Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip

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

Doesn't bzip2 require a lot more memory for decompression?  As I
recall, someone mentioned that this would cause problems for installing
releases on machines with only a small amount of RAM.


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