On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:51:03PM -0500, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
> 
> > hmmm i'd say no in general [*]; we support building .bz2 versions
> > of packages and we should do it for base - it _has_ been the plan
> > to switch to bz2 distros hasn't it?  just never done?  :-)
> 
> Has it? bz2 is really, really, really slow on our older architectures,
> compared to gzip.

I think there also was the issue that bz2 needs much more ram than gzip to
extract.

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