Am 15.02.2010 15:12, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 15:04:28 schrieb Pierre Schmitz: >> This simple patch allows us to slowly migrate to xz compressed packages. > > Yes, it's really that easy when we assume that all new packages have to be xz > compressed. So once this is applied and online everybody has to set the new > PKGEXT in his makepkg.conf > > I didn't alter the db file compression as this would obiously everything as > this is hard coded in pacman. Compressing the sources with xz (or compressing > them at all) is not worth it as they usually include already compressed files > from upstream.
I am still against implementing a solution that is that unflexible. Where's the problem in just allowing any (known) compression?
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