Re: radical suggestion for fc4 release

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr thyrsus com>]

Jeff Johnson <n3npq nc rr com>:
> 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.
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