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Date:      Sat, 27 Mar 1999 11:53:38 -0600 (CST)
From:      Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        obrien@NUXI.com, Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/news/tin Makefile ports/news/tin/files md5 
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903271152270.22203-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <14490.922553771@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

# How much smaller would all the ports be if we bzip2'ed them ?

I've seen on the order of 20% savings with bzip2.

# How hard would it be to make pkg_add aware of both formats and "DTRT" ?

Good question.  One I have asked myself many times, but never
pursued very far.

# --
# Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
# phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
# FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!
# 
# 



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