[haiku-development] Re: Do optional packages need to include everything they do?
- From: scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:35:52 -0700
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:33 AM, François Revol<revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Em 31/08/2009, às 08:48, scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
>> > Using DiskUsage before and after zipping
>> > up that test folder and you'll see the savings, 45meg vs. 60meg.
>>
>> It's quite possible that 7-zip will yield bigger gains. I actually
>> suggest that we push 7z as the format for packages. With solid
>> compression and the right combination of filters, we could see
>> enormous gains, saving on server space and on everyone's bandwidth.
>> Also, recent 7-zip implementations support multithreaded compression
>> or the LZMA2 format, so how nice a fit is that for Haiku ;)
>>
>> Besides, 7-zip can decompress zip files, so the transition could be
>> made smoothly.
>
> Except it doesn't support xattrs, does it ?
>
> François.
>
>
Only if you tar or zip it first. Also 7zip loses file permissions as well IIRC.
-scottmc
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