Luigi Mantellini wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Felix Fietkau <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Can we plan to integrate xz utils in the next future? (deprecating
>>> lzma and lzma-old packages).
>> We need the lzma library anyway (for squashfs). What advantages are
>> there to using the xz utility?
> 
> xz (formerly lzma-utils) contains the lzma library and  the complete
> application suite to manage the lzma files (lzma alone), also using
> the standard gzip cmdline interface (as linux kernel likes).
> 
> I know that it's just an alternative... for this reason I'm asking for
> a ml opinion.
IMHO if it ever becomes useful for us, then we should add it. But I
don't really believe in switching to it just for the sake of changing
something.

- Felix
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