meta-repository idea (was Re: mplayer vs. xine)

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 10:10 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> - Any particular reason for using gzip instead of bzip2? The difference 
> can be huge, especially for other.xml:

The difference in memory usage can be huge too -- bzip's memory
footprint is far larger than gzip's and not really worth the compression
savings in the vast majority of cases.

Cheers,

Jeremy