#2974: Many packages now available as .tar.xz
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Reporter: rafe | Owner: lfs-book@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: lowest | Milestone: 7.1
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: trivial | Keywords: xz packages
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Changes (by bdubbs@…):
* priority: normal => lowest
* severity: normal => trivial
Comment:
Why? How much does it save? Every package listed is now less than 3M.
Some less than 1M. How much bandwidth is saved? Is that a significant
amount?
Compare the savings to many individual blfs packages e.g python, php,
ruby, qt, firefox, ...
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