Bastian Blank <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi

Hi,
>
> Yesterday I changed the debug packages to use xz for compression. This
> reduces the size of the package from 450 to 250MiB.
>
> Next plan would be to use xz for the main image packages also. It
> reduces the size of the packages by 30% or so. It cost only little cpu,
> however the memory consumption raises.
>
> The especially space constraint architectures (arm I think) could
> convert to using XZ for the image files also. For the rest its simply
> 30% space less on disks while using some cpu.

afair, it's already enabled on armel (and maybe armhf) by default.

Arnaud


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