Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency

menion (menion@mindless.com)
Thu, 07 Jan 1999 19:23:26 +0000

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> > No, that is not foolish. Look not at 2M files but at 10M files, which
> > is the size of the kernel. I think it is more foolish to keep the old
> > .gz files when it is so clear that .bz2 is much better. (And everyone
> > running Red Hat Linux will have bzip2(1) pre-installed anyway).
>
> Afik 5.2 still doesn't install bzip2 unless you select Install Everything
> (aka waste my disk) or you go and manually pick it..
>
> I could be wrong though.

Well if you are so lazy as not to select the 'Individual Componant'
option, you get what you deserve.

js

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