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.
