Re: Re: OT Re: Advantage of debs?
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 01:53:21PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Yes, compressed tarballs tend to yield better overall compression, but that's
> not the only reason for choosing an archive format. The zip format has a
> central directory that allows any file in the archive to be extracted without
> decompressing the entire archive. This is not true of compressed tarballs.
That's true -- but is this useful in a package format? Not in my opinion.
In Debian's case it's entirely moot since zip/unzip are not free software.
I assume the same is true of freebsd.
Hamish
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