Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?
This is silly. dpkg/dselect are already insanely slow, even on my
P166 with 128 meg of RAM -- especially when reading database, etc. If
we slow down the installation so much more by using bzip2, then people
will simply stop upgrading, or switch to other distributions because
it is so slow. That is not acceptable.
John
Christopher Barry <cbarry@2xtreme.net> writes:
> If your mighty 386/25 with 4MB can make World the entire X distribution
> and custom kernels then surely it won't sweat a little bit of bzip2
> decompressing... and since you spend a lot less time downloading a
> bzip2ed *.deb, the extra time bzip2 would take by swapping and thrashing
> the disk should balance out nicely.
>
> Christopher
>
>
> James Troup wrote:
> >
> > Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> writes in gratuitous QP:
> >
> > > On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 12:15:40PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> > > > > Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway.
> > > >
> > > > Bzzt. I've compiled xfree86 for Debian/m68k on a 386/25 equivalent
> > > > with only 14Mb (don't ask) of memory several times. Took 5 days,
> > > > like, but it compiled ``properly''.
> > >
> > > I doubt it would compile on my 4 meg 486.
> >
> > I don't; I compiled kernels on the same machine when it only had 4Mb.
> >
> > > Nor would it run there.
> >
> > And I know it ran on my Falcon with 4Mb...
> >
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