Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > download time is usually 10x longer than bunip2ing of dowloaded file and > > many pays for this time so it will be much cheaper and faster on slow > > connections if bz2 is used for the reasonable amount of packages (at > > least bigger ones) > > Only if you are connecting through a straw or are not using a CD. Around > here the time to download is <<< time to install even with gzip!
The `10x longer to download' is certainly true for a 56k modem, so I suspect quite a few (perhaps a majority) of the people that are downloading are doing so `through straws'... -Miles -- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. --Nietzsche
