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Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience
- From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:11:25 +0200
- Message-id: <447C528D.7010602@xxxxxxx>
Robert Schiele wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:08:24PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> I know that. But for the initial download, a bzip2 compressed file
>> is likely to be much smaller than a gzip compressed file.
>
> About 30% on that type of file. Do you think this is worth the effort to
> accept having redundant data in the repository with an additional risk of
> inconsistencies?
Yes. Because if it is done right, no inconsistencies can happen.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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http://www.hailfinger.org/
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:08:24PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> I know that. But for the initial download, a bzip2 compressed file
>> is likely to be much smaller than a gzip compressed file.
>
> About 30% on that type of file. Do you think this is worth the effort to
> accept having redundant data in the repository with an additional risk of
> inconsistencies?
Yes. Because if it is done right, no inconsistencies can happen.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
--
http://www.hailfinger.org/
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