Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 08:34:53 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: sobomax@freebsd.org Subject: Re: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_Supporting_pkg-plist.gz_=3F?= Message-ID: <200106021534.f52FYrT34283@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <200106021038.f52AcXo50376@mail.uic-in.net> References: <200106021038.f52AcXo50376@mail.uic-in.net>
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In article <200106021038.f52AcXo50376@mail.uic-in.net>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > Actually we could save much more disk space by collapsing one-line > pkg-comment files into either pkg-descr or Makefile [bikeshed > pending]. This way we could free about 5MB (5,000 files * 1,024 > bytes wasted per file) w/o any significant disadvantage. Agreed, but why bother? 5 MB is _nothing_. The ports collection isn't a space hog, and it never has been one. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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