On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 10:31:50 -0500 Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/05/2017 09:42 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > > > Is there any chance to fix the problem once and for all by > > switching to lzip (as Eric Blake proposed[1]), instead of asking > > others to just palliate some of the symptoms? > > > > [1] > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-01/msg00008.html > > Note that I was not proposing "switching to lzip", but "adding lzip in > parallel to existing xz". I still think that parallel distribution > formats is probably worthwhile, but I'm not strongly convinced enough > to push my patch through against the wishes of other core developers > on the project. > Can developers release (liberate) the ego?. There's nothing wrong in want to provide a "second" format, this increases the chances for accessing the project, inspect, study, etc.
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