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

[Rodd Clarkson <r-list clarkson id au>]

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 10:29, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <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.

And in the spirit of Havoc, who seems to have a reasonable bug up his
but about unnecessary options in Gnome, why would you make this an
option any way.  Surely, if you were to implement it, it would be better
to make it so that it just checks for bz2 files, then gz files.  This
would give the same functionality, without having to get the user to set
yet another option.


Rodd
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