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From: Francesco Riosa <vivo75@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [RFC] gpkg format proposal v2 (was: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Improving Gentoo package format)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:21:50
Message-Id: CAD6zcDy1SMFhOnLE7kJ1mcgw-LbkSvAw01j6CwCHejFkcirWVA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [RFC] gpkg format proposal v2 (was: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Improving Gentoo package format) by "Michał Górny"
1 Il giorno dom 11 nov 2018 alle ore 22:17 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
2 ha scritto:
3
4 > On Sun, 2018-11-11 at 21:53 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > [...-]
6 > Of course, one option would be to use ZIP ;-).
7 >
8
9 Zip archives have another big advantage; there is an index of files, so
10 listing the archive contents and extracting a single file is very fast and
11 does not depend from it's position in the archive.
12 The big disadvantage is that only "desktop" profile has unzip by default
13
14 Best regards,
15 -Francesco

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