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One very nice thing about NOT being compressed is that I can work with the files as they are and not have to untar/zip/whatever first. I can just look at the ebuilds, work with them, etc. |
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> From: Tom St Denis <tom@×××××××××××××.net> |
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> Date: 2004/04/12 Mon PM 12:36:15 GMT |
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> To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers |
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> On April 12, 2004 08:23 am, Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> > maillog: 12/04/2004-08:03:13(-0400): Tom St Denis types |
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> Also the portage files are not compressed. If you take an entire directory |
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> [again say app-text] and compress it you save bandwidth. A quick check of |
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> app-text on my box [updated last night] gives a 850K zip file [290K tar.bz2] |
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> compared to 2.7M of raw data. Obviously sending the entire zip would be |
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> wasting more bandwidth when only small changes occur. |
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