The only drawback of LZMA compression is the required memory while decompressing the archive. However this isn't a drawback for applications which require a lot of memory at runtime anyway (X.org, LibreOffice, Java Runtime Environnement, Firefox, ...).
On the contrary, applications which use only a few memory at runtime shouldn't use lzma compression (Linux image, initscripts, system daemons, ...). For the later applications, maybe their package should use bzip2 compression instead. Such a compression method choice policy would ensure the same packages repository would fit a large range of computer, whatever is the physical host memory. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/986786 Title: [MASTER] packages using a lot of memory at runtime should use lzma compression To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/app-install-data-ubuntu/+bug/986786/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
