On 23-Jan-00 Rod Taylor wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, you wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Rod Taylor wrote:
>>
>> > Personally, I'd like to see less stuff in the system source for
>> > smaller installs and lower compile time leaving it up to me to
>> > customize the individual stuff thats installed. Unless bzip is used
>> > by > 99.9% of the FreeBSD installs, I'm willing to let it
>> > 'auto-install itself'.
>>
>> What if we began to use bzip2 instead of gzip for things like man pages,
>> or releases, etc?
>>
>> I think gzip is somewhat like compress, in that it might never go away
>> completely, but it's generally been superceded by (IMO) bzip2.
>
> Agreed, then it'd be useful. I also noticed a message Jordan sent through the
> list oneday mentioning the possible use of Bzip2 for a new package structure.
> I do believe that the system should have bzip in it, but because it's being
> used by freebsd internals itself, not because a person may use it at one point.
> Make gzip the port in 5.0, and bzip the root compressor... :)
The new install system is probably going to use zip rather than bzip2.
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