Am 31.12.2010 13:59, schrieb Andreas Radke: > ArchLinux prefers xz compression now. It has a very good compression > ratio but poor speed due not being threaded for smp usage. > > It seems the upstream xz developer lost the intention to implement it > after the final xz 5.0 release: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/lzmautils/forums/forum/708858/topic/4015685
He didn't loose interest, not as far as I can see. This just has to be done right. > 3rd alternative: lxz from the forum thread I couldn't find so far and > should get further testing before hitting production state in a > distribution. http://lacos.hu/ Builds fine and works fine as well. > What's your opinion? Is using p7zip a solution we can add to makepkg > for now? I wouldn't add new code to makepkg for every new compression tool we find. This should be configurable in makepkg.conf, so everyone can use different compression commands.
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