[Slackbuilds-users] txz?

[Yth O’Gtha]

> a/pkgtools-16.0-noarch-2.txz:  Rebuilt.
>   makepkg: allow setting COMPRESS_OPTION for xz as an environment variable.
>   Thanks to B. Watson.
> 

That was pretty efficient !

For comparison, I tried re-makepkg-ing using xz -0, and here are the results:

 # texlive-extra-2024.240409
     |  real |  user | sys | size |
 tgz |  5m16 |  5m07 | 11s | 3.0G |
 tbz |  1m15 |  6m47 | 17s | 2.8G |
 txz |  4m29 | 36m30 | 20s | 2.3G |
0txz |  1m27 | 10m03 | 13s | 2.8G |

 # enlightenment-0.27.1
     |  real |  user | sys | size |
 tgz | 11s30 | 10s59 |  1s | 390M |
 tbz |  3s47 | 36s93 |  1s | 383G |
 txz |  1m50 |  3m32 |  3s | 385G |
0txz |  6s02 |  1m20 |  1s | 390G |

It feels there should broader testing to have a better picture.
Here although lbzip2 is still looking like the best compromise.

And I know a lot of peaople (myself from some years ago being one of them)
« wouldn't have even thought of trying bzip2. » but it is clearly neither a bad
nor an outdated tool.

Cheers ;)

	- Yth.