Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:23:43
Message-Id: 9a63def8-9b75-b35a-f95d-60824b07187f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz by Ulrich Mueller
1 On 4/26/20 3:25 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 >>>>>> On Sun, 26 Apr 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
3 >
4 >> Fuel for the fire:
5 >
6 >> * https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html
7 >> * https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
8 >
9 > Yep. That's why lzip is the dominant compression format now, and nobody
10 > is using xz any more.
11 >
12
13 If you believed that argument, you would be using Windows =P
14
15 Dude has GRAPHS, it must be true.

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