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  • From: Geoffrey Derber <gderber AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ARCHIVE=off
  • Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 16:20:04 -0700

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 15:20 -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting neuron <vlmarek AT volny.cz>:
> > The only file where I am using ARCHIVE=off is openoffice-bin. Too big,
> > too long to bzip the archive. Otherwise I'm not using it at all.
>
> For some (e.g. openoffice-bin) it seems to take longer to make the
> archive than it did to install it (I haven't timed it, so it could be
> less time, but it close to doubles the time to install, IMO). However,
> the request was (originally) only to limit the use of ARCHIVE=off and
> leave it up to the user, not remove it completely, AFAIK.
>
> -sandalle
>

Exactly. I'd rather leave it up to the user than the spell.





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