Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:21:53 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: yuanjue@yuanjue.net, alfredoj69@gmail.com, mainland@apeiron.net, aaron@freebsd.org, mjl@luckie.org.nz, farrokhi@freebsd.org, jylefort@freebsd.org, thierry@freebsd.org, stefan@freebsd.org, shaun@freebsd.org, chinsan@freebsd.org, pb@freebsd.org, jylitalo@iki.fi, absinthe@pobox.com, ache@freebsd.org, flz@freebsd.org, lioux@freebsd.org, trebestie@gmail.com, gahr@freebsd.org, gnome@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@varju.ca, dragonsa@highveldmail.co.za, odunkl@gmx.net, clsung@freebsd.org, kay_lehmann@web.de, anray@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org, svmohr@rm6.net, oz@nixil.net, r@robakdesign.com, sascha@root-login.org, araujo@freebsd.org, vd@freebsd.org, gslin@gslin.org, sem@freebsd.org, metrol@metrol.net, ale@freebsd.org, nivit@freebsd.org, danfe@freebsd.org, stephen@math.missouri.edu, skv@freebsd.org, carl@stagecraft.cx, christopher.illies@ki.se, yaizawa@2004.jukuin.keio.ac.jp, perl@freebsd.org, peter@pean.org, elitetek@tekrealm.net, multimedia@freebsd.org, dyeske@gmail.com, girgen@freebsd.org, markus@freebsd.org, bsdkaffee@gmail.com, giacomomariani@yahoo.it Subject: Re: lzma (Re: HEADS UP: upgrading ImageMagick to 6.4.0-6) Message-ID: <20080416022153.GA56554@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <200804152151.07444.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> References: <200804151709.03452.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> <1208302201.937.2.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <200804152151.07444.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com>
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--tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:50:59PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > ???????? 15 ??????? 2008 07:30 ??, Pav Lucistnik ?? ????????: > > What the hell is LZMA and why we want it instead of .tar.gz / .tar.bz2 ? >=20 > Calm down, Pav. Then -- visit archivers/lzma to read more on this archive= r.=20 > Then -- open one of the MASTER_SITES and examine the difference in size= =20 > between .tar.bz2 and .tar.lzma: >=20 > ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ >=20 > The reduction (30%) in traffic for hundreds of mirrors, combined with the= =20 > reduced space-use on millions of /usr/ports/distfiles and CD-ROMS is=20 > certainly worth it... >=20 > I wish, more vendors were aware of this new archiver... Sadly, the author's licensing terms will limit the adoption of lzma. The BSD license is well established as the most restrictive acceptable license for successful, widely adopted compression schemes. -- Brooks --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFIBWLAXY6L6fI4GtQRAlCBAJ4mGlOmL9pWIQc+8+wPKQswjkiwjwCeM6XY D/YxiE5Q6zBRqLK2+o5/yBY= =lKUQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT--
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