On Saturday, April 5, 2014, René J.V. <<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">On Friday April 04 2014 22:33:31 Eric A. Borisch wrote:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> I'm all for it. To reiterate - pbzip2 outputs are fully compatible with</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Isn't there a similar interface to xz? Debian uses that for compression now, and I'm rather impressed with the compression gain that gives.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">R.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Y<font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">es, 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.)</span></font></div>
<div><font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">It would also mean that some archives (on <span></span><a href="http://packages.macports.org/" target="_blank">packages.macports.org</a>) would be .tbz2 and some would not, which would lead to a transition plan and period.</span></font></div>
<div><font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> - Eric [resend to list address]</span></font></div>