Idézés Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 15:55 +0900, Bendany Qian wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I just have a sugguestion about the pkg format. > > > > Currently archlinux is using gzip compress method to pack the > > package, I think it is better to use bzip2. since bzip2 format > > can save about 10%-20% disk space than gzip. > > > > As I know, FreeBSD has already switch its package format from gzip > > to bzip2 a few year ago. > > > > The back is bzip2 takes more time to compress/decompress. since we > > are using morden computer. it is not a big problem. > > (arch only support i686/x64) > > > > Regards. > > Qian > > > > -------------------------------------- > > GANBARE! NIPPON! Win your ticket to Olympic Games 2008. > > http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/ganbare-nippon/ > > 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. > I also like LZMA. It's time to create a GPL licensed fork of libarchive;-) (btw, I hate these license wars.) Bye ---------------------------------------------------- SZTE Egyetemi Könyvtár - http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
