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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
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On  3 Apr, Murray Stokely wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 01:27:03PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>> 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
>
>   Doubling numbers to make a point doesn't do much for your
> credibility.

Please...

> The FreeBSD 4.3 package set (disc1) is about 10% smaller when
> compressed with bzip2, not 20%. Someone on portmgr recently ran the
> same test with the 4.5 packages and came up with the same number
> (~10%).

Did not know about that particular experiment. With a random .gz
vs. .bz2 one's mileage can vary, and the 20% I quoted is certainly
within the range.

 
>   David O'Brien is working on adding bzip2 support for packages,
> distributions, and kernel modules to sysinstall.  I agree that moving
> to bzip2 will make CD-ROM installs more pleasant.

Right. But the talk surfaced about moving to .zip -- and I paniced :)

	-mi



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