| Date | Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:27:29 -0800 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion |
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On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:03:31 -0800 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> Right now xz suffers from limited availability. I just checked the > systems I have handy and of the 4 distro's I have installed on various > machines only 1 provides xz, so I expect it will be a while before > xz achieves ubiquity. At the same time the fact that xz reduces > the linux-2.6.32 tarball by 10Megs is a welcome benefit, and seems > to make the replacement of bzip2 with xz worth doing.
xv is not standard on Ubuntu. Installing xv-utils on Ubuntu 9.10 produces big scary warning about package conflict with lzma.
This seems like a premature optimization at this point
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