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Date:      Thu, 25 Mar 1999 23:52:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi Asami)
To:        obrien@NUXI.com
Cc:        ache@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/news/tin Makefile ports/news/tin/files md5
Message-ID:  <199903260752.XAA01445@bubble.didi.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990325224606.B1383@dragon.nuxi.com> (obrien@NUXI.com)
References:  <199903201241.EAA09091@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990325224606.B1383@dragon.nuxi.com>

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 * >   don't depend on bzip, ...
 * 
 * IMHO, this is a bad move.  We direly need to save space WRT distfiles
 * anywhere we can.  The distfiles and package CDROMs are becoming much less
 * useful as we can't put as much on them as we need to.

I agree.  The bzip port/package is just a one-time cost to save space
on many others.

Maybe I should add to the handbook that bzip2'd distfiles are to be
preferred over gzip'd versions....

Satoshi


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