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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 21:12:06
Message-Id: 60cc1621-364e-7f61-29ea-734c110acbcc@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz by Matt Turner
1 On 4/26/20 1:09 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
2 > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:29 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 09:55 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
5 >>> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715108
6 >>> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
7 >>> ---
8 >>> Strawman patch. Bikeshed away.
9 >>>
10 >>
11 >> xz is generally slow and doesn't do parallel good. If we want to change
12 >> this, we should go for something cool like zstd that scales better.
13 >
14 > That works for me.
15 >
16
17 Let's make the default conditional on zstd USE flag as suggested in bug
18 719456. It will be similar to how the ebuild enables FEATURES=xattr for
19 USE=xattr.
20 --
21 Thanks,
22 Zac

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