On Mon, 2022-04-11 at 13:58 +0100, Jon Turney wrote: > Historically, xorg packages were usually provided as .gz and .bz2 > compressed tarballs. The current trend is to no longer provide .bz2, > but .gz and .xz instead. Allow the compression to be configured, with a > backwards compatible default.
If all or even most current packages use .xz, then maybe just default to that and define XORG_SRC_COMPRESSION for the (current) exceptions? -- Yaakov