On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: >Hi, > >I read in an earlier mail that the main distro will no longer fit on one >CD. Since a standardised specialized tool is already required to install >a *.deb and this tool is installed on every Debian box, why not in the >next update of dpkg include support to decompress bzip2 compressed >*.debs? This would be transparent for the user, and (as far as I can >reason anyways) fairly painless for the developer. >
I think we already went through this discussion a short while back. Unless I'm missing something new, it was pretty much decided that the memory overhead of bzip2 was too great for low-mem or slow PCs to handle. That said, please correct me if I got the wrong end of the stick. - dave -- | oOOooO / --| oOobodoO / [EMAIL PROTECTED] --| ooOoOo / | II / "Rocky Road," croaked the toad. | II /