On Friday 19 August 2011, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
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.
Hopefully providing them as "update-alternatives" and making them even the default are two different steps to be done in different openSuSE releases! These tools are so essential that a possible replacement must done very carefully. For example what happens on a quad core CPU with "make -j 4" if make invokes 4 multithreaded pbzip2? A load of 16!? Is this what the user wants? I personally would never touch these original tools. Instead I would replace them by xz wherever its possible. - xz -1 is much better than gzip and almost as fast - xz is better than bzip2 in speed and ratio - xz will have --threads implemented soon No need to replace the good old tools for an obsolete compression. Just replace the obsolete compression and keep the old ones 100% stable for sure (at least keep old ones as default). cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org