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Re: 17 megabytes compressed download?!
- To: Eric Lemings <eric dot b dot lemings at lmco dot com>
- Subject: Re: 17 megabytes compressed download?!
- From: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:03:08 -0400
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <3B2FCA5C.30CD9017@lmco.com>
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 03:55:40PM -0600, Eric Lemings wrote:
> Maybe it's time the GCC maintainers should seriously consider ways to
> reduce the size of the gcc-3.x.tar.gz downloads.
Did you notice that there are separate tarballs for different languages?
If you only need a couple lanaguages, then don't download the whole thing.
Also, I believe that .bz2 files are still being generated. Those are
usually significantly smaller.
Phil
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