Rich Teer wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bruno Jargot wrote:
> > I think it's better to stick with bzip2 archives. They need less
> > bandwidth and less room on disks. Using gzip again would be a step
> > backwards. Really.
> 
> I resepctfully disagree.  Casper and I discussed this ages ago (I
> forget exactly when); apparently the use of bzip archives is one
> reasons why installing Solaris takes so long.

Correct me if I am wrong... the 3K manual page archive for developers
has nothing todo with Solaris install... right ?
(And bzip2 on SPARC could be tweaked to run a little bit faster anyway).

I vote to use bzip2 to compress all the developer sources... usually the
disks are slower than uncompressing the tarball anyway...

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Roland

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