On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 05:56:25 -0400, core_dump wrote:
> Me and everyone else have suggested this at one point in time or
> another. We always get the same response - that bz2 is slower on old
> machines and it would not save enough necessary to reduce the amount of
> discs in the Slackware distribution.

Yes, but remember that also is possible to make pkgtools that can use tgz
and also tbz2 packages. Then you get iso or packages from tgz mirror or
from tbz2 mirror. Like with kernel source, you can download tar.gz or
tar.bz2 archive.

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