| 1 |
On 4/26/20 2:12 PM, Zac Medico wrote: |
| 2 |
> On 4/26/20 1:09 PM, Matt Turner wrote: |
| 3 |
>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:29 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
| 4 |
>>> |
| 5 |
>>> On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 09:55 -0700, Matt Turner wrote: |
| 6 |
>>>> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715108 |
| 7 |
>>>> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> |
| 8 |
>>>> --- |
| 9 |
>>>> Strawman patch. Bikeshed away. |
| 10 |
>>>> |
| 11 |
>>> |
| 12 |
>>> xz is generally slow and doesn't do parallel good. If we want to change |
| 13 |
>>> this, we should go for something cool like zstd that scales better. |
| 14 |
>> |
| 15 |
>> That works for me. |
| 16 |
>> |
| 17 |
> |
| 18 |
> Let's make the default conditional on zstd USE flag as suggested in bug |
| 19 |
> 719456. It will be similar to how the ebuild enables FEATURES=xattr for |
| 20 |
> USE=xattr. |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
In https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/15520 the issue was raised that |
| 23 |
it's probably not a good idea to change this default via the zstd USE |
| 24 |
flags, since changing the format of binary packages is kind of a big |
| 25 |
deal (it affects consumers of any binary packages that you build). |
| 26 |
|
| 27 |
I think it might be a good idea to make this new default apply only to |
| 28 |
new installations, like we did when changing default locations for bug |
| 29 |
378603. |
| 30 |
|
| 31 |
If we're changing the default, then all architectures need keywords, so |
| 32 |
I've opened https://bugs.gentoo.org/721960. |
| 33 |
-- |
| 34 |
Thanks, |
| 35 |
Zac |
Archives