On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:02:29AM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > distributions like slackware and fedora moved to the "xz" compression > a while ago, even the kernel developers think about abandoning the > ".tar.gz" file format in favor of alternatives with better compression > like ".tar.bz2" or ".tar.xz" (or short: ".txz").
I've never heard of xz before your post (not that I claim to be up to date with current developments in compression technology). And debian stable (aka lenny) doesn't have it: % apt-cache search xz makexvpics - updates .xvpics thumbnails from the command line xzgv - Picture viewer for X with a thumbnail-based selector xzip - Interpreter of Infocom-format story-files xzoom - magnify part of X display, with real-time updates zblast-x11 - X11 version of zblast, shoot 'em up space game horae-examples - ATHENA and ARTEMIS examples and tutorials or is this in a package with an obscure name? And debian stable tar doesn't have a -J option. (And you don't think the unsecure .shar format is a canditate?) Does it really matter if the distribution is 1M or 1.5M? I can see this makes a difference for large distributions like the kernel, though. So I vote for keeping .tar.gz -- or if size really matters move to bz2. Ralf -- Dr. Ralf Schlatterbeck Tel: +43/2243/26465-16 Open Source Consulting Fax: +43/2243/26465-23 Reichergasse 131 www: http://www.runtux.com A-3411 Weidling email: off...@runtux.com osAlliance member email: r...@osalliance.com _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
