Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932070AbWEWNjF (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 09:39:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932225AbWEWNjE (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 09:39:04 -0400 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:10684 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932070AbWEWNjD (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 09:39:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:38:53 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Alistair John Strachan cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression In-Reply-To: <200605222200.18351.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: References: <200605222015.01980.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <200605222200.18351.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1473 Lines: 36 >> >> > Any idea why this wasn't done for bzip2? >> >> >> >> Yes, the bzip2 author I have been told was originally planning to do >> >> that, but then thought it would be harder to deploy that way (because >> >> gzip is a core utility, and people are nervous about making it larger.) >> >> I'd say that concern is valid. >> >> >It's a bit of a shame bzip2 even exists, really. It really would be better >> > if there was one unified, pluggable archiver on UNIX (and portables). >> >> Would You Like To Contribute(tm)? :) >> Whenever a program is missing, someone is there to write it. > >I would, but if it's a "valid concern" that gzip is a few hundred KB larger, >and the community would not graciously receive such work, there's not much >point, is there? :-) > Make it use shared libraries (did I already mention that?) BTW, "a few hundred KB" is really overestimated if it's just about bzip2: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27640 Apr 23 02:20 /usr/bin/bzip2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 66864 Apr 23 02:20 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.0 That's not even _one_ hundred KB. Oh, just keep it as .so. :) And of course, compile with klibc, it has less loader bloat than glibc (as someone had found out...I think it was Greg.) Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/