Jeff Johnson <n3npq@xxxxxxxxx>: > Very very very foolish imho, as rpm is rate limited by decompression, > and bzip2 uncompress is known 5-7 times slower than gzip. Is that a problem? Processors are speeding up faster than media are getting larger -- thus, trdsing clocks for space seems like the right thing. I'm open to counterargument here -- I just want to be sure you've thought through the tradeoffs completely. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>