[80304] trunk/dports/archivers/xz/Portfile

Jeremy Lavergne jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org
Sat Jul 9 07:40:08 PDT 2011


That's the part I meant, not bzip2. My bad on flipping the commit message backwards.

There are gains to using xz provided the typical user would make use of multiple packages in that format, otherwise we're just making it take longer to get to the package they're after.

On Jul 9, 2011, at 6:45 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> xz is an even better (smaller) compression format than bz2 so it's even more preferred, except that in this case the xz port can't itself use an xz distfile because then the xz port would have an extract dependency on itself.
> 

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