On 6 Oct 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > This is silly. dpkg/dselect are already insanely slow, even on my > P166 with 128 meg of RAM -- especially when reading database, etc. If > we slow down the installation so much more by using bzip2, then people > will simply stop upgrading, or switch to other distributions because > it is so slow. That is not acceptable.
The new bzip2 0.9 (?), while not as fast as gzip, is considerably faster than the older bzip2 0.1pl2 (??) (I can't remember the version numbers. :-) Considering the time saved during downloading, I would say that the use of bzip2 would save time overall for most people. Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>