[arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0)

[Dan McGee]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 01:23:16 schrieb Dan McGee:
>> For libarchive to support lzma/xz natively, we would need liblzma in
>> core as well. Thoughts?
>
> Sure its only a few KB. Even the complete lzma-utils package would be only
> 75KB.
>
> Anyway: Would it be better to use (successor) xz instead? Or ist the file
> format somehow compatible?

You snipped out what the libarchive release notes said- liblzma
supports xz AND lzma, apparently.

It is all here:
http://tukaani.org/xz/

-Dan