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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:22:58
Message-Id: 20170110152119.4b0df858.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages by Mart Raudsepp
1 On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:01:15 +0200
2 Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Ühel kenal päeval, T, 10.01.2017 kell 19:19, kirjutas Vadim A. Misbakh-
5 > Soloviov:
6 > > that will 
7 > > affect tons of users (which are happy with current "defaults")
8 > > because yours 
9 > > only own local problems (not having root access on the system)?
10 >
11 > Yes, the default should be changed for everyone.
12 > To PORTAGE_COMPRESS="xz".
13
14 Please do not encourage the use of 'wannabe-7zip' further. If you want
15 LZMA2, then lzip has less complexity, less overhead and slightly better
16 compression ratio than xz. It is also more reliable.
17
18 --
19 Best regards,
20 Michał Górny
21 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>