Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:48:21 +0100 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sun 2010-02-14 18:33:49, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Seriously, getting xz support on >> Windows is just as easy or as difficult as getting gz support. > > Sorry, but I just don't think that's true.
Although it is. :-)
> No more windows systems > here. On android, gzip is supported, xzip is not. Debian machine > supports both, but gzip was preinstalled and I had to pull xzip. (This > does not help either: > > root@amd:~# apt-cache search xzip > xzip - Interpreter of Infocom-format story-files
Considering that xz support is available even on niche systems like Amiga OS and BeOS (via p7zip if not by other means) and xz-utils proper build even on DOS, OpenVMS and other systems, how hard can it be to obtain an xz decompressor on Android, Debian, or Ubuntu¹? (¹About which there was a note somewhere else in this thread that there is a conflict between xz-utils and lzma-utils... That's basically because the former supersede the latter.)
The name confusion between xz-utils and xzip can be avoided if you search for the package in a package manager which shows package categories (archivers vs. games). -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- --=- -==== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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