Re: Switching XZ for ZSTD?

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On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 01:45:45PM -0000, Daniel Alley wrote:
> 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

There's also the issue that liblzma is widely used and offers specific
features which zstd does not[1].

Rich.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/395#issuecomment-535875379

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