Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:03:31 -0800
ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> Right now xz suffers from limited availability.  I just checked the
> systems I have handy and of the 4 distro's I have installed on various
> machines only 1 provides xz, so I expect it will be a while before
> xz achieves ubiquity.  At the same time the fact that xz reduces
> the linux-2.6.32 tarball by 10Megs is a welcome benefit, and seems
> to make the replacement of bzip2 with xz worth doing.

xv is not standard on Ubuntu.
Installing xv-utils on Ubuntu 9.10 produces big scary warning
about package conflict with lzma.

This seems like a premature optimization at this point

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