Re: RFC#8 - bzip2

> (vax tmp 42)$ time (bzip2 -d ezm3-1.0-src.tar.bz2; tar xf ezm3-1.0-src.tar)

eh eh eh
This test is bad done and you know. ;-)

Try this for a real comparison:

$ time (bzip2 -d ezm3-1.0-src.tar.bz2; tar xf ezm3-1.0-src.tar) $ rm -rf ezm3-1.0

$ time (gzip -d ezm3-1.0-src.tar.gz; tar xf ezm3-1.0-src.tar)

I'm sure gzip will be faster, however I prefer save time on bandwidth and disk space. Also note that bandwidth is shared among computers, CPU isn't, but these are details...

Try OpenOffice download + decompression to smile ;-)

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> If that really bothers you, just use the prebuilt packages. I am really

(RFC#9)
I'm simply asking to publically define a preferred order for distfiles format and I'll suggest bzip2 as first choice.

You choose.

Simply write the ordered list somewhere for ports maintainers (and users).

        Ed Received on Wed Feb 26 17:09:37 2003