On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pie...@archlinux.de> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 01:23:16 schrieb Dan McGee: >> For libarchive to support lzma/xz natively, we would need liblzma in >> core as well. Thoughts? > > Sure its only a few KB. Even the complete lzma-utils package would be only > 75KB. > > Anyway: Would it be better to use (successor) xz instead? Or ist the file > format somehow compatible?
You snipped out what the libarchive release notes said- liblzma supports xz AND lzma, apparently. It is all here: http://tukaani.org/xz/ -Dan
