What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

Saw this posting from Bruce on Slashdot: http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98/10/15/1011208&pid=128#147 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:45:49PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:29:34PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > > theone wrote: > > > > Na

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

we slow down the installation so much more by using bzip2, then people > will simply stop upgrading, or switch to other distributions because > it is so slow. That is not acceptable. > > John > > Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If your mighty 386/25

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

isk space usage on ftp servers, reduced load on ftp mirrors, reduced usage of local disk space for those of us that like to keep a local mirror, etc., etc Christopher James Troup wrote: > > Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If your mighty 386/25 &g

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

If your mighty 386/25 with 4MB can make World the entire X distribution and custom kernels then surely it won't sweat a little bit of bzip2 decompressing... and since you spend a lot less time downloading a bzip2ed *.deb, the extra time bzip2 would take by swapping and thrashing the disk should bal

How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

Hi, I read in an earlier mail that the main distro will no longer fit on one CD. Since a standardised specialized tool is already required to install a *.deb and this tool is installed on every Debian box, why not in the next update of dpkg include support to decompress bzip2 compressed *.debs? Th