lzma (Re: HEADS UP: upgrading ImageMagick to 6.4.0-6)

[Pav Lucistnik]

Mikhail Teterin píše v út 15. 04. 2008 v 21:50 -0400:
> вівторок 15 квітень 2008 07:30 по, Pav Lucistnik Ви написали:
> > What the hell is LZMA and why we want it instead of .tar.gz / .tar.bz2 ?
> 
> Calm down, Pav. Then -- visit archivers/lzma to read more on this archiver. 
> Then -- open one of the MASTER_SITES and examine the difference in size 
> between .tar.bz2 and .tar.lzma:
> 
>  ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/
> 
> The reduction (30%) in traffic for hundreds of mirrors, combined with the 
> reduced space-use on millions of /usr/ports/distfiles and CD-ROMS is 
> certainly worth it...

The compression ratio is certainly impressive. Still, I'm unsure the
saved six megabytes are worth one new package having installed. But it's
up to you as a maintainer, I guess.

> > Please revert that.
> 
> I'll take that under advisement. Am I to assume, you have no /other/ issues 
> with the patch? Thanks!

Not from the visual review, no other issues.

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

Russians in the rear view mirror ...
are closer than they appear.
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