From: "L. C. Robinson" <lcr@onewest.net>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: slackware 8.0
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 19:06:53 -0700 (MST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203031853470.7245-100000@rupin.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020302153035.A14950@debian>
> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 07:49:56AM +1000, Adrian Beech wrote:
> > Just as an aside... It would be nice if the ISO images could
> > be zipped so it would reduce the size of the downloads.
All distributions already archive the individual packages in
superior archive formats (zip is pretty dated, and M$ specific),
usually *.tgz, *.tar.gz, *.deb, or *.rpm. If the zip archiver
(which is available for linux) is configured properly, it will
not try to compress these archives again, thereby actually
increasing their size a bit. So you would gain little or nothing
by zipping the ISO image, or rest assured, they would already be
shipped (or posted) in this way.
LCR
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L. C. Robinson
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` Adrian Beech
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