#52000: Add xz to "base" to allow changing the default compression format to .tar.xz in the future -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: mojca@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: base | Version: 2.3.4 Keywords: | Port: -------------------------+-------------------------------- It would be nice to add `xz` to base (in a similar way as it is done for Tcl) to be able to switch to `.tar.xz` in the future and to save space. (I don't want to open the can of worms discussing how to do the transition from `.tar.bz2` to `.tar.xz`, but merely to provide the prerequisite to be able to do so when we are ready.) `xz` and `xzdec` together need less than 300k in total (and perhaps a tiny bit more if built universally). (We could also build them just on 10.6 for x86_64 and 10.5 for i386/ppc and use the same binary everywhere.) Somewhat related tickets: * [[TicketQuery(id=33037|50448)]] -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52000> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X