On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Pacman itself is ready for .tar.bz2 package files. The whole issue > with .bz2 files is that compression and decompression times increase a > lot without giving the same amount of size reduction back. We've done > some recent tests with LZMA, which compresses just as good as bzip2 at > the lowest compression rate, but does it at the same speed as gzip. The > downside is that LZMA is not supported by libarchive, and won't be > supported officially either, because libarchive is BSD licensed and LZMA > is GPL licensed. > Is it possible and/or realistic to imagine a BSD licensed implementation of LZMA?
