Re: [arch-general] Zstandard for local user build packages - Was: [arch-announce] Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression

---------------------------------------- From: Morten Linderud via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> Sent: Sat Jan 04 23:46:26 CET 2020 To: <arch-general@archlinux.org> Cc: Morten Linderud <foxboron@archlinux.org> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Zstandard for local user build packages - Was: [arch-announce] Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression

This is a devtools change, the `makepkg.conf` supplied with pacman hasn't changed. If you want zstd on your local builds, change the `PKGEXT` as explained in the makepkg.conf manpage.

May I ask why it wasn't changed for makepkg.conf? It seems inconsistent. Yours sincerely G. K.