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Date:      Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:16:37 +0000
From:      Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com>
To:        Dmitry Sivachenko <mitya@cavia.pp.ru>, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/create perform.c
Message-ID:  <E16RwGw-0000Zb-00@rhenium>
In-Reply-To: <19646665187.20020119145544@cavia.pp.ru>
References:  <20020119144231.U47506-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> <19646665187.20020119145544@cavia.pp.ru>

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On Saturday 19 January 2002 11:55 am, Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
> Hello, Dmitry.
>
> On 19 января 2002 г., 14:44:58, you wrote:
>
> DM> On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
>
> DS>> MS>   Modified files:
> DS>> MS>     usr.sbin/pkg_install/create perform.c
> DS>> MS>   Log:
> DS>> MS>   Pass `-9' flag to gzip(1), so that package is compressed
> using maximum DS>> MS>   compression. Usually this gives gives
> extra 1-1.5%. DS>>
> DS>> MS>   MFC after:      1 day
> DS>>
> DS>> Are there any plans to switch to bzip2?
>
> DM> I suppose this would be inconvenient especially concerning
> recent catman DM> changes. But adding another control knob in
> make.conf would be useful for DM> the owners of "powered enough"
> machines. Not only for manpages, of course
>
> bzip2 decompression takes just a little more time than with gzip.

It actually needs a lot more memory. This would be a real pain on 
machines with very little memory. Configurable option by all means 
but gzip is more friendly for low powered environments.

> DM> -- but this implies deep'n'thorough digging into varoius
> sources ;-)
>
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