From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jun 2 8:43:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from heinz.jollem.com (c104187.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.104.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC55B37B422; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 08:43:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ernst@heinz.jollem.com) Received: (from ernst@localhost) by heinz.jollem.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f52FfJc04825; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 17:41:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ernst) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 17:41:19 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan To: John Polstra Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ? Message-ID: <20010602174119.A4802@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> References: <200106021038.f52AcXo50376@mail.uic-in.net> <200106021534.f52FYrT34283@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200106021534.f52FYrT34283@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:34:53AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John, > > Actually we could save much more disk space by collapsing one-line > > pkg-comment files into either pkg-descr or Makefile [bikeshed > > pending]. This way we could free about 5MB (5,000 files * 1,024 > > bytes wasted per file) w/o any significant disadvantage. > > Agreed, but why bother? 5 MB is _nothing_. The ports collection > isn't a space hog, and it never has been one. Well, what about being sensible and reasonable? Why spend disk space if you don't have to? The ports system is constantly improving, as it should. Kind regards, Ernst -- Ernst de Haan Java Architect Jollem Information Technology "Come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message