>>>>> On Mon, 08 Dec 2025, Philip Kaludercic wrote:

> Along these lines, note that the xz(1) manpage even says:

>   In addition, decompression of the .lz format used by lzip is
>   supported.

Yes, .lz decompression support was added to xz-utils in 2022 (with the
feature implemented by a Gentoo developer).

> I am not familiar with the Gentoo build system, even if they do not have
> lzip installed, they should be able to just use xz on our .lz files?

As I said before, it's a minor issue, and of course we can cope with lz
files. It's only that the format is uncommon and therefore not supported
by the standard unpack function of our package manager.

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