On 10/1/07, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote: > Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) writes: > > Peter Tribble wrote: > > > Installation is slow. (One primary cause is bzip2, but the tools aren't > > > as efficient as they could be.) > > yep bzip2 is the major culprit really. > > And, for what it's worth, the use of bzip2 isn't actually a packaging > issue. The packaging tools themselves know nothing of it; it's a WOS > (bootable system image construction) issue.
Indeed. In evaluating alternatives, we need to be careful to distinguish between the intrinsic behaviour of a particular solution and some external implementation artefact like this. Given the current installation times, how much of an improvement in performance might be considered as a target? And how much of that can be gained by speeding up the process and how much by simply installing a smaller initial footprint? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
