Re: tar/pax and bzip2 - patch

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg_(_at_)_britannica_(_dot_)_bec_(_dot_)_de>]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:44:26AM -0500, Michael Shalayeff wrote:
> compress and gzip are the same binary that supports
> addition of additional compression algorythms.
> bunzip2 part can be added most certainly but why?
> nothing in the system will ever use it anyway due to
> insane cpu and memory demands even for decompression.

Because bzip2 offers better compression? Having decompression support
it base makes using bzip2 distfiles for ports much more sensible.
This saves bandwidth and more those with slow connection also time.
If you consider bzip2 slow, try 7zip. It does an even better job
at compressing data, but needs *much* more time.

Joerg