Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
Cc: 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 19:26:05
Message-Id: u7dy2kq0p@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz by Michael Orlitzky
1 >>>>> On Sun, 26 Apr 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2
3 > Fuel for the fire:
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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.
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11 SCNR,
12 Ulrich

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