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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage
From:       Enrico Weigelt <weigelt () metux ! de>
Date:       2008-05-17 15:55:22
Message-ID: 20080517155522.GA17386 () nibiru ! local
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* Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org> schrieb:

<big_snip />

IMHO, lzma is far from being mature enough from being suited as 
packaging format for production systems. And actually, I don't 
see the benefit over well-approved tar+(gz|bz2). 

So my vote is to NOT use it for gentoo source packages.


cu
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