2014-09-04 1:18 GMT+09:00 Fabian Greffrath <fab...@greffrath.com>: > Hi Changwoo Ryu, > >> I think yes. The cost is 24 MiB extra memory on installation, and >> benefits are bandwidth and mirror size saving of big packages. > > I beg to differ. Those few kiB of bandwidth (yes, I mean it like that) > saved when downloading a package are worthless if the decompresion > routine forces the system onto its knees upon installation of that very > same package.
As I posted in earlier mail, for *big* packages it could actually save good amount of size "per package". The total space save in the whole archive could be a few gigabytes. And almost all desktop machines don't fail to allocate additional memory xz needs. OK, anyone could type "apt-get install texlive-latex-extra-doc" on lowmem machines to install 400 MiB documents and fail on decompressing. But for what purpose? Practically no one needs to install such big packages on non-desktop lowmem machines. IMO bandwidth and mirror space are much more valuable than supporting unlikely lowmem install combinations. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caee2ifuzetmtaaxwv9wx_uxdgufj5bouq64oaraiu+rcfz7...@mail.gmail.com
