"Sergey I. Golod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Bas Zoetekouw wrote: >> Thus spake Sergey I. Golod ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> > Why apt/dpkg doesn't use bzip2 for Packages file? >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 749427 Sep 3 00:56 Packages.bz2 >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024180 Sep 3 00:56 Packages.gz >> > It's about 25% can be saved in download. >> >> Yeah, but I guess it would take about twice the time to unpack. Please >> don't do that to my poor 486 :-(( > >But extra size = extra traffic = extra money, that's worse. Unpack no >cost at all >(except you time, ofcourse).
These days, my time costs a lot more than my connectivity. I'm lucky enough to have a not-too-badly-obsolete machine at home, and even it creaks quite a bit under the load dpkg puts on it with over 1500 packages installed. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
