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by nurettin 2985 days ago
Too bad for arch https://www.archlinux.org/news/switching-to-xz-compression-f...
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saghm 2985 days ago
Is this really an issue for this use case? My naive take is that since Arch updates packages so often, "long-term storage" doesn't come up that much in practice.
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aidenn0 2985 days ago
It's zero issue since the packages are updated regularly and hashed before installing.
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saghm 2985 days ago
Good point, I hadn't even thought of checksums!
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mikepurvis 2985 days ago
Default compression for debian packages is xz as well: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/en/man1/dpkg-deb....
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agumonkey 2985 days ago
this is from 2010, I guess if xz was bad for this use case they'd know by now
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