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On Sun, 11 May 2014 19:46:50 +0200 |
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Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> Rationale: xz-utils is quite widespread nowadays and it is a part |
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> of @system set. It can achieve better compression ratio than bzip2, |
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> and faster decompression at the same time. |
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Some thoughts: |
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What about putting multiple doc / man / info files in a single .xz file |
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for each package? Would that further improve the situation? |
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(As they can share dictionary, instead of having multiple dictionaries) |
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Some algorithms tend to work better for smaller files, whereas others |
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work better for larger files; might this be the case for bzip2 vs. xz? |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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