Re: packages without .md5sums file?
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > Can you elaborate on the advantage of letting everyone generate their own
> > checksums for the installed files? Seems to me a waste of cpu cycles.
>
> We process all the data in a pipe anyway so calculating the checksum
> takes no effort.
It does take effort. Just copying a block of data around, is less cpu/io/mem
intensive, then additionally passing that thru some checksum generator.
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