1) This is not intended to "recover broken system", it's just for people preferring statically linked executables 2) gzip doesn't run multithreaded, this package does by using the same gzip command but faster (on >1 cores systems, obviously). Idea stolen from KISS Linux, they've been doing it for years. On 2025-07-09, notify@aur.archlinux.org wrote:

oech3 [1] filed a deletion request for pigz-replace-gzip-static [2]:

Duplicating with gzip and pigz. Static build of this is not useful to recover broken system.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/oech3/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/pigz-replace-gzip-static/

Request #74461 has been Rejected by bertptrs [1]: Not a valid reason for deletion. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/bertptrs/