Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (564 mails)

[Linda Walsh <suse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cristian Rodríguez wrote:

> On 24/12/11 21:48, Nelson Marques wrote:
> > 2011/12/24 Claudio Freire<klaussfreire@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Cristian Rodríguez
> > > <crrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > > It is not that wonderful actually, it will require adding extra
> > > > packages to the base installation anyway, defeating the original
> > > >  purpose that is having the less as possible packages in the base
> > > >  buildroot.
> > >
> > > Ok, but if a big portion of upstream projects start shipping xz
> > > tarballs, is one extra package that much?
> >
> > Cristian,
> >
> > For example, some days ago we start rebuilding over 40 packages for
> > MATE (the Mint featured desktop alternative), those packages once
> > more came in .xz.

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        Can I make a suggestion?

How about adding a package that removes others?

        Like if you 'add' 7z,
you can remove, gzip, zip, bzip2, uncab, unrar, lzma/unlzma, and xz...

it also unpacks tar, cpi, rpm and deb format as well as several OBJ
formats...



For compression, it handles (compresses in:)  zip, gzip bzip2, (and xz/7z)...

And it does a better job of zip compression than zip!
(it can also compress in any of those formats in parallel, but only
handles bzip2 for parallel decompression...



I was just thinking about how simpler the 'lessopen.sh' plugin could be and
how much more it could handle automatically using 1 program as it's filter.

...

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