I've been working a bit with tex-live. I now uses xz to compress their very large files (126M and 1.2G). I note that it takes quite a bit more time to extract these files than bz2. The tradeoff may be worth it, but the better compression is not free.
-- Bruce time tar -xf texlive-20110705-texmf.tar.xz real 2m3.082s This is on a reasonably fast system. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
