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| Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > 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. OpenBSD also runs on machines like vax. I can imagine bzip2 taking a lot of memory and being slow. Cheers, Dries |