Compressing packages with bzip2 instead gzip?

MadMan2k madman2k at gmx.de
Wed Dec 7 15:58:53 GMT 2005


why not move directly to 7-zip? It is LGPL and has the best compression 
ratio at the moment.

M2k

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.
>



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