Al Hopper wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Roland Mainz wrote:
>
>   
> [...]
>> Erm, I have to disagree... "bzip2" is in some cases _far_ better than
>> "gzip" - it depends what needs to be compressed... and the extra space
>> saved allows to squish more stuff on the CDs/DVDs ...
>>     
>
> Doubtless there are some corner cases where using bzip2 would be 
> worthwhile, and it may be the only option when you need every byte 
> available on a CD-ROM, but for the majority of use cases gzip is a 
> clear win.
>   

   I think the current SXDE packages will overflow a DVD if gzip
   were to be used, and we still have Xen coming in.

Regards,
Moinak.


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