On Mon, 12 May 2014 11:35:00 +0200 Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 19:46:50 +0200 > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> 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)
1. How tools like man or info are supposed to work with such bundle? They are not expecting to have multiple man/info files into single xz bundle. 2. This will put a stress on decompression procedure: in order to extract one file whole xz will have to be docompressed. > 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? It doesn't really matter because small files will still require one filesystem block for majority of users. For people with reiserfs or squashfs this may matter of course. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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