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 completely, but it's generally been superceded by (IMO) bzip2.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. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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