Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The worst (and most relevant here) constraint is on initrd size, and >> that is unaffected by .deb size. > > Why not move it out, then? Just unpack the necessary packages in the target > root so that you can decompress the rest.
If it's done using that way the size increasement (of initrd) could be avoid. That doesn't solve the memory footprint (of bzip2 usage). > And while we're at it, why not use lzma instead? Gives better compression > ratio, and the size increase becomes insignificant once that issue is solved. Talking at #debian-boot about this issue, we also doesn't know if the compression ratio will be good enough to justify the slowdown of uncompression. Base isn't a big set of packages and IMHO before deciding about commiting this change or not we need to know how much we'd reduce the size of base set. -- O T A V I O S A L V A D O R --------------------------------------------- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br --------------------------------------------- "Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]