Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (806 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le vendredi 19 août 2011, à 11:24 +0200, Lars Müller a écrit :
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 07:53:36PM -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > I would like to propose replacing (not removing) the default command
> > line tools for compression, specifically "gzip" for "pigz" and "bzip2"
> > for pbzip2.
> > These tools are backward compatible and have dramatically better
> > performance because they do compression in parallel utilizing current
> > multiple CPU machines.
> >
> > Possible paths to do this
> >
> > a) Simple adding "update-alternatives" support to all the mentioned
> > tools and let the user to decide, however we install pigz and pbzip2 by
> > default. I do not endorse this way.
>
> Arguments please.  update-alternatives is a mechanism we use for other 
> alternatives we provide and is known to work.  Therefore I would prefer
> if we reuse the same mechanism for pbzip2.

+1.

Sure, update-alternatives is not very friendly at first, but once you've
used it, it's fine :-) If you need help to use it, just ask!

Cheers,

Vincent

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