-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: aur-general-bounces@archlinux.org [mailto:aur-general- bounces@archlinux.org] Namens Timm Preetz Verzonden: maandag 10 maart 2008 15:39 Aan: Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR) Onderwerp: Re: [aur-general] lzma
Yes. And especially for LaTeX packages this seems good. Would probably also make sense to offer big packages as lzma instead of gz, but not sure how big the difference in size really is.
But that few MBs are probably never worth the confusion it would make to offer packages in just another format...
Pacman 3.1.x doesn't have problems with packages in whatever file format you feed it, as long as libarchive can read it. At this moment, that will be everything that can be extracted using bsdtar. Lzma is one of the formats not yet included into libarchive.