lzma (Re: HEADS UP: upgrading ImageMagick to 6.4.0-6)

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From
Mikhail Teterin <mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com>
Date
16 Apr 2008 01:51:10
Subject
lzma (Re: HEADS UP: upgrading ImageMagick to 6.4.0-6)
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200804152151.07444.mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com


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 15  2008 07:30 , Pav Lucistnik  :
> What the hell is LZMA and why we want it instead of .tar.gz / .tar.bz2 ?

Calm down, Pav. Then -- visit archivers/lzma to read more on this archiver.
Then -- open one of the MASTER_SITES and examine the difference in size
between .tar.bz2 and .tar.lzma:

ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/

The reduction (30%) in traffic for hundreds of mirrors, combined with the
reduced space-use on millions of /usr/ports/distfiles and CD-ROMS is
certainly worth it...

I wish, more vendors were aware of this new archiver...

> Please revert that.

I'll take that under advisement. Am I to assume, you have no /other/ issues
with the patch? Thanks!

Yours,

-mi


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