[opensuse-factory] Re: 'xz' (LZMA) support by default on our build environments...

Cristian Rodríguez wrote:

On 24/12/11 21:48, Nelson Marques wrote:

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2011/12/24 Claudio Freire:

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On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:

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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.

---- 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. ... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org