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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 15:56:38
Message-Id: 20080517155522.GA17386@nibiru.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage by Mart Raudsepp
1 * Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> schrieb:
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5 IMHO, lzma is far from being mature enough from being suited as
6 packaging format for production systems. And actually, I don't
7 see the benefit over well-approved tar+(gz|bz2).
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9 So my vote is to NOT use it for gentoo source packages.
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12 cu
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17 Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:
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19 Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions:
20 http://patches.metux.de/
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