pbzip2 isn't faster

[Eric A. Borisch]

On Saturday, April 5, 2014, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Friday April 04 2014 22:33:31 Eric A. Borisch wrote:
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> > I'm all for it. To reiterate - pbzip2 outputs are fully compatible with
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> Isn't there a similar interface to xz? Debian uses that for compression
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Yes, but a private pbzip2 can be installed with no dependencies (using
/usr/lib/libbz2) while pxz would require a private xz and pxz install (I
think.)

It would also mean that some archives (on packages.macports.org) would be
.tbz2 and some would not, which would lead to a transition plan and period.

  - Eric [resend to list address]
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