Hi all,
bringing this to blfs-dev for a reason:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote:
That would be bad, but for LFS we can work around by converting
everything that needs bz2 to either xz or gz.
That's what I was thinking/doing for *many* years. You either want stuff
to be faster or smaller, but there is little use in combining the
disadvantages of both (aka bz2 ;-]). So I instantly converted every bz2 I
got. I considered that topic settled for many years. BUT: only very
recently I recognized, that wget switched from using xz to lzip (in Dec
2018, see https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/). This came rather unexpected to
me since lzip is the older project and "the world" has long switched to
using xz instead. However, (current) lzip at least claims to have a bunch
of advantages (smaller, faster, better error recovery). I explicitly do
not propose to add or switch everything to lz, but I just wanted to
mention, that "switch everything to xz [...]" may not be the perfect
solution. E.g. you will not get a new wget as xz (but rather as lz [or
gz])...
Uwe
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