Compressing packages with bzip2 instead gzip?

[Patrick McFarland]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 09:03, Stefan Glasenhardt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a question :
>
> Is it possible to compress all packages with bzip2 instead gzip? Bzip2
> compresses about ~30% more efficient than gzip and this would mean,
> there could be more software on the Install-CD than now.

Except you usually don't see that kind of gain on binary files. Infact, I've 
seen in a minority of binary files that gzip out performed bzip2. The only 
place I can see bzip2 making sense is on docs, manual pages, xml files, and 
anything that isn't an executable, a library, an image/sound/video/other 
media file, or the holy visage of the the flying spaghetti monster.

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