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On Mon, 2018-11-12 at 01:21 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: |
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> Il giorno dom 11 nov 2018 alle ore 22:17 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> |
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> ha scritto: |
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> > On Sun, 2018-11-11 at 21:53 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > Of course, one option would be to use ZIP ;-). |
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I wasn't serious there. |
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> Zip archives have another big advantage; there is an index of files, so |
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> listing the archive contents and extracting a single file is very fast and |
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> does not depend from it's position in the archive. |
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> The big disadvantage is that only "desktop" profile has unzip by default |
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The two main problems with ZIP is that: |
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1. As you noted, it's not present in core system packages. |
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2. It uses trailer format which means that you need to fetch the whole |
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file before being able to process it. |
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There was also some patent hassle back in the day but I think it's no |
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longer applicable today. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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