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  • From: Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] xz archives
  • Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:19:36 -0500

Given that Sorcery 1.15 in test and devel support xz compression, and
many upstream projects release xz archives now (i.e. gnome), is it
okay to use xz archives over bzip2 or gzip in the grimoire? Or should
this only be permitted after the stable branch of sorcery supports xz
archives? xz has better compression than bzip2 and gzip, and faster
decompression times than bzip2, so it seems to me to be a better
alternative.




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