On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Joseph Carter wrote: >> (I said) >> 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. >> > >It'd STILL be nice to be able to use bzip2 for package source on REALLY BIG >packages (Mozilla, X) >
very good point! those users with slow / low mem machines are less likely to be installing these packages anyway! Perhaps we could compromise by saying that anyone running these on a slow machine will be patient anyway and can deal with the extra slowness and disk thrashing of using bzip2? - dave -- | oOOooO / --| oOobodoO / [EMAIL PROTECTED] --| ooOoOo / | II / "Rocky Road," croaked the toad. | II /
