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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using .xz for doc/man/info compression
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 03:26:45
Message-Id: 53703EFA.3020404@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using .xz for doc/man/info compression by "Michał Górny"
1 On 11/05/14 20:46, Micha³ Górny wrote:
2 > Hello, developers.
3 >
4 > I'd like to raise the following item for discussion: making .xz
5 > the default compressor used by portage for documentation, man pages
6 > and info files. That is, the equivalent of:
7 >
8 > PORTAGE_COMPRESS=xz
9 >
10 > in make.globals.
11 >
12 >
13
14 I like it, I've been using it myself from make.conf with the current
15 install on this machine.
16
17 But no, I don't have size or speed comparison to give :/
18
19 - Samuli