I honstly disgress. This should be in BLFS soon. Just read my comments, and you will start supporting my desition to include XZ into the book:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Tobias Gasser <[email protected]> wrote: > - CMMI: even a blfs-beginner should be able to install is I have to admit, agreed, but remember, it should be in /bin, and liblzma in /lib, like Bzip2 and Gzip. That's simple, if you look at CLFS. But it still should be in the book. > - beta: no comment! On the contrary, I say that it might tenicaly be a beta, but it's VERY close to the release. It even has it's own file format specification: http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-file-format.txt Definite +2 for XZ in the book. > - no dependencies: i couldn't find any package requireing it Tar requires it for the -J and the --xz options, at the very least. And lzma-utils can't open XZ files. This absloutly a +2 for XZ in BLFS or LFS. > - time: to many packages are waiting to be updated, thus > no need to add more packages yet. Then make me a writer if you want this in the book!!!!!!!! *sigh*. > + kernel support: it's a "nice to have", but not required I agree with this. > > having considered the above arguments i changed my mind... Then change it back. Now you know why XZ should be in the book. > even when the package leaves beta, i don't see any need for it in the > book. whoever wants to compress the kernel with xz should be able to do it. Read my comments, and my comments with overide yours. The tally: +5 for XZ, and two things for XZ not in the book. So, the moral of the story: XZ should be the book soon. The XZ defender (AKA: William) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
