On 2 April 2014 21:46, drago01 <drag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: >>> ** possibly adjust spec files to require or build-require lbzip2 instead of >>> bzip2. >> Is this necessary? Wouldn't it be better to have lbzip2 Provide bzip2 >> or something so that updating all those packages is not necessary, >> and also that people who prefer normal bzip2 can still use it? > > Why would people prefer it? If it is the same but slower?
Yes, if it's interface compatible then it's pretty nice. Multithreaded compression is handy from time to time. Pity about no library interface (lbzip2 might be an unfortunate name choice...), particularly for things like perl and python. I suppose from the pov of minimal systems it might be nice to not have to have both if you need to fulfil both a bzip2 library requirement and a bzip2 requirement, but that's a very particular case for a few kB saving. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
