Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1176 mails)

[Ralf Lang <lang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Sonntag, 4. September 2011, 17:30:11 schrieb Per Jessen:
> Ralf Lang wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 4. September 2011, 15:51:28 schrieb Per Jessen:
> > > Philipp Thomas wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 00:51:09 +0200, Rüdiger Meier <sweet_f_a@xxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > To say it again I like pigz. But renaming ... ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Why not replacing it in /usr/bin/compress - the Posix way to define
> > > > > a Z compressor. If user asks for gzip please give him gzip.
> > > > Then 99% of all users will continue to use gzip just because they
> > > > don't know better.
> > >
> > > Which isn't really a problem, is it?
> >
> > If it wasn't viewed as the wrong thing, the question had not been
> > raised.
>
> Thank you, I am aware of that. I was trying to argue that that view is
> wrong.

Ok, then I missunderstood you a bit. Thank you for clarifying.

In the sense of 'it has been working before' you are certainly right. In the 
sense of 'this is the right way for now and later', I am not so certain. This 
is, if interfaces are in fact compatible (there was some dispute on this). If 
the process accepts the gzip input parameters and spits out gzip files, I see 
no need to guarantee which 'gzipper' sits in between. 

The arguments for using gzip at all in automated tasks are fast results and 
backwards compatibility - as opposed to best feasible compression. Speed could 
be improved by pigz, compatibility of the resulting archives is not broken.

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