Am 31.12.2010 13:59, schrieb Andreas Radke:
ArchLinux prefers xz compression now. It has a very good compression ratio but poor speed due not being threaded for smp usage.
It seems the upstream xz developer lost the intention to implement it after the final xz 5.0 release: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lzmautils/forums/forum/708858/topic/4015685
He didn't loose interest, not as far as I can see. This just has to be done right.
3rd alternative: lxz from the forum thread I couldn't find so far and should get further testing before hitting production state in a distribution.
http://lacos.hu/ Builds fine and works fine as well.
What's your opinion? Is using p7zip a solution we can add to makepkg for now?
I wouldn't add new code to makepkg for every new compression tool we find. This should be configurable in makepkg.conf, so everyone can use different compression commands.