Petr Uzel wrote:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 08:29:19AM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
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.
b) Building pigz with executable name "gzip" and rename gzip to gnu-gzip, and bzip2 to bzip2.old or something similar. This is the way endorse
What is the reason for keeping the old tools?
In case there is a bug in pigz/pbzip2 (you know, all sw has bugs :) ), it will be handy to have the old tools.
Petr
Very true, but if the new parallel tools have not been sufficiently tested, we should not be making them default just yet. Then it would be better to go with Cristians option 1 and leave it to the user. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (22.9°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org