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Re: packages without .md5sums file?



On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > Can you elaborate on the advantage of letting everyone generate their own
> > checksums for the installed files?  Seems to me a waste of cpu cycles.
>
> We process all the data in a pipe anyway so calculating the checksum
> takes no effort.

It does take effort.  Just copying a block of data around,  is less cpu/io/mem
intensive, then additionally passing that thru some checksum generator.




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