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

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Rodd Clarkson (r-list clarkson id au) wrote:
> 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.
That doesn't make sense.  I am not Havoc, but it seems like he is more
against visible options in gnome.  garnome is not GNOME, it is a package
builder that happens to build GNOME.  Plus options are great if they
are initialized to the right (or assumed right) values.  Yes, I agree
that an option that allows one to download .gz files instead of .bz2
(maybe they don't have bzip installed?) would be better.

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Sam
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