On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Mark Constable <markc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > FWIW, possibly worth considering adding lzma to pacman... > > http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3326 > > --markc Interesting. You may want ot take this to the pacman-dev ML. A good "real-world" look might be grabbing the openoffice package and uncompressing it to a folder, and then run the following tests: bsdtar czf package (gzip) bsdtar cjf package (bzip2) <lzma creation of package> and then the similar unzip costs, along with the size of the original folder structure (unzipped package) vs. their zipped counterparts. -Dan
