On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:12:48 -0500 Goran Tal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now that the base system supports xz compression, it should be used as
> the default compression for packages.
>
> Files compressed with xz are smaller and decompress faster than those
> compressed with bzip2. This can make an installation much quicker,
> especially when the complete system is installed or upgraded.
>
> Any reasons against it?
Sigh. We enabled that in HEAD, and after some testing and adapting
{base_OS, ports, tools, etc.} to support that, it will probably become
the default.
One thing against it is the major increase in package time (up to 6x,
but by no means this is a show-stopper).
Resulting packages would be, in medium about 30% smaller (in medium,
for some kinds of data the size is the same as for gzip).
So no, there's no reason against it, just some time is need to adapt
everything.
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