Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?
Le vendredi 13 avril 2007 à 06:30 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit :
> > You wouldn't say that if you had a Via C3 with 10 Mbit bandwith.
> >
> Which is by far a minority situation.
I don't know for other countries, but 20 Mbit is now the standard in
French cities (while countryside access is so slow you can't even
consider network updates).
> 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."
By keeping decompression time reasonable, you are indeed making life
more difficult for people with slow links. By increasing it by one order
of magnitude, you make dpkg absolutely unusable on slow machines.
HMH's proposed per-architecture setting is nice, but i386 and powerpc
would have to remain with gzip.
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