In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001221703020.4454-100000@localhost>, Alex Zepeda wro
te:
} On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Rod Taylor wrote:
}
} > Personally, I'd like to see less stuff in the system source for
} > smaller installs and lower compile time leaving it up to me to
} > customize the individual stuff thats installed. Unless bzip is used
} > by > 99.9% of the FreeBSD installs, I'm willing to let it
} > 'auto-install itself'.
}
} What if we began to use bzip2 instead of gzip for things like man pages,
} or releases, etc?
I did that (for man pages) out of curiosity a year or two ago, and the
difference was negligible. bzip2 seems to do better on bigger files
as a (very) general rule than on smaller ones.
} I think gzip is somewhat like compress, in that it might never go away
} completely, but it's generally been superceded by (IMO) bzip2.
I don't agree at all, and all you have to do is visit a few web sites
and ftp sites' download areas to see why. It's just not ubiquitous, or
even close.
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