[arch-general] About Arch pkg compress format

[Bendany Qian]

Hi all

I just have a sugguestion about the pkg format.

Currently archlinux is using gzip compress method to pack the
package, I think it is better to use bzip2. since bzip2 format
can save about 10%-20% disk space than gzip. 

As I know, FreeBSD has already switch its package format from gzip
to bzip2 a few year ago.

The back is bzip2 takes more time to compress/decompress. since we 
are using morden computer. it is not a big problem. 
(arch only support i686/x64)

Regards.
Qian

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