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Shemeta

Member

Registered: 2004-02-11

Posts: 117

bz2?

Hi folks,

is there a way to make pacman use *.tar.bz2 files? it would be nice, since the download time would be shorter & people who use limited DSL internet could save some MBs.

Shemeta

terrapin

Member

From: Lockport, IL

Registered: 2003-08-06

Posts: 104

Re: bz2?

Shemeta, there was discussion of this a little bit ago.  Here's that topic.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … hlight=bz2

There was issue with the bandwidth savings versus decompression time.

Shemeta

Member

Registered: 2004-02-11

Posts: 117

Re: bz2?

thanks for the info.