Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Thus spake Sergey I. Golod ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Why apt/dpkg doesn't use bzip2 for Packages file? > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 749427 Sep 3 00:56 Packages.bz2 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024180 Sep 3 00:56 Packages.gz > > It's about 25% can be saved in download. > > Yeah, but I guess it would take about twice the time to unpack. Please > don't do that to my poor 486 :-((
But extra size = extra traffic = extra money, that's worse. Unpack no cost at all (except you time, ofcourse). wbr, Serge. p.s. If Debian change default compression to bzip2 in future, we can save about ~20-25% in size of distribution. It especially important to reduce network traffic in update&upgrade operations. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]