Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 07:47:12
Message-Id: 6d951228d24e1ded6431c39775b90db368fcd7bd.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 18:23 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On 4/26/20 3:25 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
3 > > > > > > > On Sun, 26 Apr 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
4 > > > Fuel for the fire:
5 > > > * https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html
6 > > > * https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
7 > >
8 > > Yep. That's why lzip is the dominant compression format now, and nobody
9 > > is using xz any more.
10 > >
11 >
12 > If you believed that argument, you would be using Windows =P
13 >
14 > Dude has GRAPHS, it must be true.
15 >
16
17 It is true but nobody cares. People managed to shove a lot of unused
18 code into the kernel and nobody cares.
19
20 --
21 Best regards,
22 Michał Górny

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