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List:       crux
Subject:    Re: tar.xz packages support
From:       Juergen Daubert <jue () jue ! li>
Date:       2010-04-02 9:50:58
Message-ID: 20100402095058.GA597 () jue ! netz
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On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:40:07AM +0200, Juergen Daubert wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:43:13AM +0400, Johnny wrote:
> > Hi.
> 
> Hello Sergei,
> 
> > I'd like to ask if there are any plans to include support of tar.xz packages in upcoming releases of 
> > pkgutils? Just like Archlinux did http://www.archlinux.org/news/490/. Thanks.
> 
> This was already discussed a bit, see [1]. Having packages compressed
> with xz make sense if you distribute binary packages like arch does, but
> not for sources-based distro like CRUX. 
> IMO it's not acceptable if every user has to wait a factor of 16 longer 
> until pkgmk has compressed the package.

* of course the compression time ratio between xz and gzip depends on
many factors and is not a constant, 16 was just the number I got for the
example in [1].

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