On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Peter Leftwich wrote: > At the FreeBSD.Org ports website, however, it says the total size of > the tarball (tar/gzip) is 25mb. Is this a matter of compressed > versus uncompressed? Why the discrepancy?
That's part of it, the other part is that the ports consist of a lot of small files, so you have a significant block/directory size overhead as well. KeS _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
