[aur-general] lzma

[Firmicus]

Timm Preetz a écrit :
> On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:19 +0100, Firmicus wrote:
>   
>> BTW, nothing beats gzip in terms of speed and memory footprint... But
>> if 
>> you need higher rates of compression, then lzma seems to be a great 
>> alternative to bzip2.
>>     
>
> Yes. And especially for LaTeX packages this seems good. Would probably
> also make sense to offer big packages as lzma instead of gz, but not
> sure how big the difference in size really is.
>
> But that few MBs are probably never worth the confusion it would make to
> offer packages in just another format...
>
>   
The *sources* for TeXLive 2008 will be offered as tar.lzma archives 
instead of tar.bz2. This makes a little difference in size, but it does 
make a big difference in decompression time! Note that this does not 
affect users, only distro maintainers.