Jonathan Dieter wrote: > My proposal would be to make zchunk the rpm compression format for > Fedora.
Given that: 1. zchunk is based on zstd, which is typically less efficient in terms of compression ratio than xz, depending on settings (see, e.g., https://github.com/inikep/lzbench), and 2. zchunk can by design only compress chunks individually and not benefit from the space savings of a solid archive with a global dictionary, I fear that this is going to significantly increase the size of the RPMs, which matters: * for the initial downloads, * for storage (e.g., keepcache=1, local mirrors, etc.), and * for the people not using deltas for whatever reason. I think zchunk makes a lot of sense for the metadata, but I am not convinced that it is the right choice for the RPMs themselves. Kevin Kofler _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
