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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:44:44
Message-Id: CAEdQ38FiU71KVQ0EXZYVusmNOyJYxA8oREYU=GDLvfendu0LeA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2 by Michael Mol
1 On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > A few months ago, I filed bug 423651 to ask that bzip2 on the install
3 > media be replaced with
4 > pbzip2. It was closed a short while later, telling me that it'd
5 > involve changing what's kept in @system, and that had to be discussed
6 > here, rather than in a bug report.
7
8 If we're going to ship a parallel bzip2 implementation, it should be
9 lbzip2 and not pbzip2.
10
11 lbzip2 can decompress bz2 archives with multiple threads that haven't
12 been compressed with lbzip2/pbzip2.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2 Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2 Piotr Szymaniak <szarpaj@××××××××.pl>