[arch-general] About Arch pkg compress format

[Xavier]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Can't this problem be circumvented by spawning the lzma command line
> utility, and piping all data to it? I understand that this perhaps
> negates the purpose of libarchive, but the overhead should be small.
>

That indeed totally defeats the purpose.
We currently have a neat and transparent way to access all kind of
different archives supported by libarchive, without any hacks.