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Re: RFC: provide Packages.bz2 files



On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:09:03PM -0400, shaleh@clifford.livenet.net wrote:
> 
> Look in the archives for the opinion on bz2.  On less than midrange
> pentiums bzip2 is quite slow.  100k is not much of a diff, even over
> my modem.
> 

All those 100k's can add up quite quickly when you pay for your 'net
by data.  Personally, I don't mind the unpacking to take a bit longer,
but I _do_ mind when things are bigger than they could be, it costs me
mula.

daniel


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