On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 01:44:16PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: >> On 30 October 2012 12:38, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net> wrote: >> >> > --- a/configure.ac >> > +++ b/configure.ac >> > @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([Makefile.am]) >> > AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) >> > >> > # Initialize Automake >> > -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2]) >> > +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2 no-dist-gzip]) >> >> >> How about enabling .xz too? > > I disabled .gz because IMO one tarball is enough, we don't need two if one > is likely never used anyway. A similar situation would apply to xz, we'd > have two tarballs but no real need. And the space savings aren't that huge > that it switching from bz2 to xz alone really makes a difference. > > 365522 xorg-gtest-0.6.0.tar.bz2 > 308152 xorg-gtest-0.6.0.tar.xz
Perhaps the bigger advantage of xz over bz2 is decompression speed. In many cases, single threaded xz decompression is faster than two-threaded parallel bz2 decompression. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
