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Re: support for lzip
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Bob Friesenhahn |
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Re: support for lzip |
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Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:11:42 -0600 (CST) |
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Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
Given the simplicity of the changes needed (see attached patch), I see no
reason for not supporting lzip, which some developers[1] already dub "the
currently best free compression program".
+1
Lzip sources are 10X smaller than Lzma/Xz Utils, and lzip is similar
to gzip and bzip2 in package size and complexity. This seems like
quite an advantage.
Bob
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