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Re: About the partial tarballs

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

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From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Marko Karppinen <marko@karppinen.fi>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-11-12T03:29:52Z
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> Even if they weren't useful for anything else, I think there's value in the
> developers having to consider what is optional and what is not. This need
> for constant review probably reduces the chance of bloat, over time even
> in the full tarball.

How about dropping the partial tarballs and using the space savings to 
distribute a .tar.bz2 archive as well.

Chris