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Re: Re: OT Re: Advantage of debs?



On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 04:28:23PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
: 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.

What about Info-ZIP?  I'm pretty sure that's entirely free.

        --Jerry

name:  Jerry Alexandratos         ||  Open-Source software isn't a
phone: 302.593.4322               ||  matter of life or death...
email: darkstar@udel.edu          ||  ...It's much more important
                                  ||  than that!


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