Re: Garnome feature request (was Re: tarball with tar.gz ext)

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Danilo Segan">

> Of course, this would raise the problem of checksums, but it can be
> resolved simply by including checksums for both gzipped and bzipped
> tarballs. This would certainly be a much better solution.
> 
> The other idea might be including a "preferred tarball compression" in
> "gar.conf.mk" as a variable which would work for all garballs which are
> known to have both available (this should work for all tarballs from
> ftp.gnome.org).

Why should this even be an option? bzips are smaller, and a larger
proportion of GARNOME users use GARNOME to do all the downloading - indeed,
that's half of what it does.

This seems like unnecessary complexity for a very small proportion of
GARNOME users.

- Jeff

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