On Sun, 11 May 2014 19:46:50 +0200
Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rationale: xz-utils is quite widespread nowadays and it is a part
> of @system set. It can achieve better compression ratio than bzip2,
> and faster decompression at the same time.

Some thoughts:

What about putting multiple doc / man / info files in a single .xz file
for each package? Would that further improve the situation?

(As they can share dictionary, instead of having multiple dictionaries)

Some algorithms tend to work better for smaller files, whereas others
work better for larger files; might this be the case for bzip2 vs. xz?

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