Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:12:33AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le jeudi 12 avril 2007 à 21:15 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit :
> > > I think compression ratio is better than speed in most cases. With better
> > > compressed packages we save archive space, users save a lot of bandwidth, and
> > > the first CD/DVD can hold more stuff. That's important too.
> >
> > You wouldn't say that if you had a Via C3 with 10 Mbit bandwith.
> >
> Which is by far a minority situation. You are much more likely to end
> up with someone on a 384k or 512k DSL (or even slower ISDN link) with an
> opteron, xeon, athlon64 or the like. I'm not saying that your situation
> is not possible, simply that trading size for compression/decompression
> time would benefit far more people than it would "hurt."
You know, make it intelligent enough, and you can have per-arch settings of
what compression to use. gzip for arm, lzma for amd64, and source, etc.
The dak suite, and dpkg, certainly won't care. It would just work.
--
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where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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