packages compressed with xz

[Matthias Andree]

Am 29.11.2010 19:31, schrieb jhell:

> Adding to this, as the manual says... The decompressing host will need
> to have at minimal 5% -> 20% of memory 'available' for decompression of
> what the compressing host had. Seeing as FreeBSD still runs on systems
> with memory as little as 200MB "~20% of 1024MB" and quite possible to
> run on systems with memory of 64MB "~5% of 1024MB" I would not see any
> benefit in modifying the default memory limit on a compressing host to
> accommodate for these system rather than using gzip(1) or bzip2(1) by
> default.

You can specify limits during compression, so the question is should we do that
so that hosts with N MB of RAM can decompress packages?  Do we retain the
compression ratio over bzip2 if we limit compression memory to 512 MB so that
decompression would be possible with, say, 128 MB?

> It would be nice to support xz(1) compression for large selective
> packages like firefox or openoffice as those will never run on smaller
> systems.

Yes, would be nice.  I doubt it will happen soon.

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Matthias Andree