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Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:01:11 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Rod Taylor <rod@zort.on.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>
Subject:   Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzi
Message-ID:  <200001241901.OAA14380@server.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <0001222017550K.00537@rbtBSD.intranet>

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On 23-Jan-00 Rod Taylor wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, you wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Rod Taylor wrote:
>> 
>> > Personally, I'd like to see less stuff in the system source for
>> > smaller installs and lower compile time leaving it up to me to
>> > customize the individual stuff thats installed.  Unless bzip is used
>> > by > 99.9% of the FreeBSD installs, I'm willing to let it
>> > 'auto-install itself'.
>> 
>> What if we began to use bzip2 instead of gzip for things like man pages,
>> or releases, etc?
>> 
>> I think gzip is somewhat like compress, in that it might never go away
>> completely, but it's generally been superceded by (IMO) bzip2.
> 
> Agreed, then it'd be useful.   I also noticed a message Jordan sent through the
> list oneday mentioning the possible use of Bzip2 for a new package structure. 
> I do believe that the system should have bzip in it, but because it's being
> used by freebsd internals itself, not because a person may use it at one point.
> Make gzip the port in 5.0, and bzip the root compressor... :)

The new install system is probably going to use zip rather than bzip2.

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