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Subject: Re: lzma instead of bzip2 for packages compression ?
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In case you want to use xz, the '--extreme' option prevides a higher compression ratio than lzma with the same memory requirement for decompression.

Le 24/04/2012 18:27, Eric Blake a écrit :
> On 04/24/2012 10:21 AM, Jérôme Bouat wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> The cygwin 'tar.bz2' packages are created once and broadcasted to many
>> hosts.
>>
>> The lzma compression is fast for decompression.  Could we possibly get
>> the packages with lzma compression ?
>
> lzma is obsolete.  If anything, we want xz.
>


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