On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 03:11:22PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > On 3/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 03/17/07 12:33, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Pardon me if I say something stupid, but I don't know why tar cannot just > 1)run the .tar.rz file through rzip when decompressing, than extracting the > necessary files from the .tar > 2)when compressing, generate a .tar and then run it through rzip. > > It would probably be slower than to use pipes, but would be good enough in > many situations. Anyway, having the option wouldn't hurt, and I think it > would be quite simple to add this to the tar code. > > If, for instance, .deb's used rzip, they would probably be significantly > smaller and I believe that the time saved in download would be much higher > than the additional time spent in decompressing.
This would take up lots of disk space: the archive itself, the uncompressed archive, then the unarchived files. Not every computer that debs are installed to has a plethora of free space. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]