> I discovered that when importing a 7z'ed package, we're reading data from
> the 7z pipe one character at a time, which slows things down a bit.  I
> filed
> 
>     5724 seriously suboptimal bufsize in cpiofile.py
> 
> and have fixed this globally with
> 
>     http://cr.opensolaris.org/~dduvall/pkg-bufsize/

This change means that by default we've switched from unbuffered
subprocess I/O to a 128k in all cases.  I realize that this speeds up
the importing of 7z pkgs, but does it have any adverse effects
elsewhere?  Do we really need a 128k buffer for every subprocess that we
invoke?

-j
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