> http://python-bz2.sourceforge.net/ > and it's not available in lots of distros. > When compressing XML, bzip2 beats gzip by a large margin. For example > the createrepo files for the full FC2 DVD as currently created with gzip > are about 7.74 MB total, and the same ones bzipped (gunzip ; bzip2 -9) > are about 4.90 MB total. It depends on connection and processor speed > how big or small the overall benefit is. > > Not that it would be an absolute must have right now, but keeping the > bzip2 option on the map in addition to gzip for the future would be a > good idea IMO. It's not ruled out - it just isn't everywhere right now, so it's not easily usable. -sv
