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    SubjectRe: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion
    On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:27:29 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
    > 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

    That would be a packaging bug, xz should transparently supersede lzma.

    --
    Jean Delvare


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