On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 10:06:24PM -0500, dsb3 wrote: > >I read in an earlier mail that the main distro will no longer fit on one > >CD. Since a standardised specialized tool is already required to install > >a *.deb and this tool is installed on every Debian box, why not in the > >next update of dpkg include support to decompress bzip2 compressed > >*.debs? This would be transparent for the user, and (as far as I can > >reason anyways) fairly painless for the developer. > > I think we already went through this discussion a short while back. > Unless I'm missing something new, it was pretty much decided that the > memory overhead of bzip2 was too great for low-mem or slow PCs to handle. > > That said, please correct me if I got the wrong end of the stick. It'd STILL be nice to be able to use bzip2 for package source on REALLY BIG packages (Mozilla, X)
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