On 10 Jul 2011, at 19:57, Joel E. Denny wrote: >> you might prefer to drop bzip2 compression altogether and stick with >> just the most-common gzip and best-compressed xz > > Thanks for the suggestion. It sounds like there's no reason to keep > bzip2. > >> at least one (GNU cppi [*]) distributes only xz-compressed tarballs. > > I'm a little skeptical of dropping gzip just yet.
Mac OS X supports gzip & bzip2 in its 'tar', but not xz - must be installed separately. Might be BSD thing. Hans
