Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 13:27:03 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: jkh@winston.freebsd.org Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.org, winter@jurai.net, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, pst@pst.org, des@ofug.org, imp@village.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c installUpgrade Message-ID: <200204031827.g33IR39r046085@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <28699.1017857530@winston.freebsd.org>
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On 3 Apr, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >> But .zip is noticeably bigger than .tar.gz. Not to mention, .tar.bz2. >> And the package size is what's of the highest priority, IMHO, since >> disks and especially bandwidth don't grow nearly as fast as the CPU >> speeds. > > You must live outside the US, that's all I can say. That assertion is > completely false here. Newton, MA. Thank you. > I would also argue that package size is of the highest priority - > that's patently untrue. What's the highest priority in packaging > formats is providing enough power and mechanism to make the package > installation experience a lot more robust and user-friendly. Oh, "experience" -- what a great marketing word! It isn't pleasant, if each package is 20% bigger than it can be (.gz vs. bz2) and someone is advocating another 20% (?) bump (.zip vs. tar.gz). And why? Because we can't figure out the best place to extract it in? > Disks are getting so cheap and so large (in even the most humble user > configurations) that I'd probably put package size _last_. > I also live in the middle of the woods with redwood trees and all > sorts of wildlife around and even I have 1.5MBit worth of downstream > bandwidth via my ADSL line. Just imagine how well-connected all those > city people must be! :-) Are you suggesting we ignore the dial-up modem users? No amount of patented smileys can smooth that up, you know :-) -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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