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Michael Mol schrieb: |
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> A few months ago, I filed bug 423651 to ask that bzip2 on the install |
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> media be replaced with |
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> pbzip2. |
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If I understand correctly, pbzip2 depends on bzip2. So what you are |
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asking is that pbzip2 is preferred over bzip2 when both are installed, |
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and that pbzip2 is installed by default? |
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I have so far encountered only one anecdotal case in #gentoo IRC where |
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pbzip2[symlink] caused problems in emerging a package. Disabling the |
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symlink flag made the problem go away. However I can't point to the |
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report right now, maybe someone with searchable backlog can uncover it. |
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A different question is whether in the cases where parallel bzip2 makes |
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sense, is it really the best solution? xz is outperforming bzip2's |
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compression ratio for large files (for an informal comparison, see bug |
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434350). And xz is faster at decompression, which offsets the parallel |
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advantage to some degree. |
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Best regards, |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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