Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio

2021-02-21 Thread Kevin Morris via arch-general
A 10 second improvement is _large_. You may think that you don't need it because you're sitting at your computer, but think about servers, vms, automated systems... Every second makes things quicker. Moving from 20 seconds to 10 seconds is halving its boot time. That is a good thing. On Sun, Feb

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio

2021-02-21 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
On 2021-02-21 20:17:28, Archange via arch-general wrote: Well I don’t boot often enough for even say 30s to make a difference (and my boot time is actually dominated by 1. UEFI and 2. Passphrase input). Outside of being impressive, what does a <10s boot time actually achieves? It likely takes

Re: [arch-general] About package guidelines

2021-02-21 Thread Óscar García Amor via arch-general
El dom, 21 feb 2021 a las 17:27, Filipe Laíns () escribió: > What I did look at was the version, which was severely outdated, and the last > update date, which was 3 years ago, so I honestly didn't even bother. Don't worry, I already assumed you wrote the PKGBUILD from scratch in this specific

Re: [arch-general] About package guidelines

2021-02-21 Thread Sefa Eyeoglu via arch-general
> I'm surprised that this is not respected by the trusted users when > they pick an arbitrary package that is maintained in AUR and upload it > to the community repository without crediting anyone of past > maintainers. I saw this course of acting in several packages and don't > like to me. It

Re: [arch-general] About package guidelines

2021-02-21 Thread Filipe Laíns via arch-general
On Sun, 2021-02-21 at 17:03 +0100, Óscar García Amor via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > When a user submit a package to AUR must follow package guidelines. > There is an interesting point that says that in the top of PKGBUILD > you must respect the previous contributors [1] and credit them (if >

Re: [arch-general] About package guidelines

2021-02-21 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:03:10 +0100 Óscar García Amor via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > When a user submit a package to AUR must follow package guidelines. > There is an interesting point that says that in the top of PKGBUILD > you must respect the previous contributors [1] and credit them (if >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio

2021-02-21 Thread Archange via arch-general
Le 21/02/2021 à 17:34, mike lojkovic via arch-general a écrit : Those milliseconds matter. When you have a thousand processes starting up shaving off a couple fractions of a second on each helps you hit the less than 10 second boot time. Well I don’t boot often enough for even say 30s to make

Re: [arch-general] About package guidelines

2021-02-21 Thread Archange via arch-general
Le 21/02/2021 à 20:03, Óscar García Amor via arch-general a écrit : Hi, When a user submit a package to AUR must follow package guidelines. There is an interesting point that says that in the top of PKGBUILD you must respect the previous contributors [1] and credit them (if any). I'm surprised

[arch-general] About package guidelines

2021-02-21 Thread Óscar García Amor via arch-general
Hi, When a user submit a package to AUR must follow package guidelines. There is an interesting point that says that in the top of PKGBUILD you must respect the previous contributors [1] and credit them (if any). I'm surprised that this is not respected by the trusted users when they pick an

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio

2021-02-21 Thread mike lojkovic via arch-general
Those milliseconds matter. When you have a thousand processes starting up shaving off a couple fractions of a second on each helps you hit the less than 10 second boot time. On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 4:48 AM Archange via arch-general < arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > Le 21/02/2021 à

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio

2021-02-21 Thread Archange via arch-general
Le 21/02/2021 à 02:56, Geert Hendrickx via arch-general a écrit : On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 21:25:21 +0100, mpan via arch-general wrote: I benchmarked it on my mkinitcpio image, and zstd with mkinitcpio's […] Though you have benchmarked a wrong thing. It’s decompression time that matters here,