Re: [arch-general] lzma compression tests

2008-03-25 Thread rodland
Great improvements for my athlon xp, lzma is faster than bz2 and with better compresion ratios. For the end user, uncompressing speed it's only few seconds greater than gzip but the gzip file is nearly 20 MB bigger than lzma! I have used the current openoffice-base-2.4.0-0.4-i686.pkg.tar.gz package

Re: [arch-general] lzma compression tests

2008-03-24 Thread Dan McGee
CCing to pacman-dev. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 14:43 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Mark Constable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > FWIW, possibly worth considering adding lzma to pacman... >

Re: [arch-general] lzma compression tests

2008-03-24 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 14:43 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Mark Constable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FWIW, possibly worth considering adding lzma to pacman... > > > > http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3326 > > > > --markc > > Interesting. You may want ot take thi

Re: [arch-general] lzma compression tests

2008-03-24 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Mark Constable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, possibly worth considering adding lzma to pacman... > > http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3326 > > --markc Interesting. You may want ot take this to the pacman-dev ML. A good "real-world" look might be grabbing t

Re: [arch-general] lzma compression tests

2008-03-24 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 05:24 +1000, Mark Constable wrote: > FWIW, possibly worth considering adding lzma to pacman... > > http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3326 > > --markc Which will only happen if libarchive gets LZMA support.