On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 01:45:45PM -0000, Daniel Alley wrote: > It's not possible to simply substitute one for another universally, there's no "Fedora default", it's something that would need to be handled on a package-by-package basis. > > As long as there are existing xz-compressed files in the wild, Fedora will need to support consuming them - as long as there is software that expects xz compression, Fedora will need to support creating them. It's not going to disappear any time soon, and until then we're stuck with xz > > All that being said, there are plenty of bits of software that could *start* using zstd by default and it would probably make sense to do so. See also an upstream GNU discussion on whether more GNU packages should start providing zstd, or even lzip, tarballs in addition to xz: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2024-04/msg00032.html -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. Virtualization: qemu.org | libguestfs.org -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
