For the sake of debate, only. (Please don't take offense at any of my comments.)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Rob McGee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob0@slackbuilds.org">rob0@slackbuilds.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div>xz is a fine tool, possibly superior to gz in every way. But it has<br></div>
not been around as long.</blockquote><div>"Linux is a fine tool, possibly superior to MS-DOS in every way. But it <br>has not been around as long."<br><br>Your argument appears to stipulate that we should prefer older solutions <br>
even when the alternatives are superior in function.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I run numerous older boxes, some of which<br>
are not likely to get upgraded soon if ever,</blockquote><div>Ignoring the obvious security concern of not keeping your boxes updated, how long are<br>the rest of us expected to wait for you to join to the 21st century? I'm sure your situation<br>
is common in this community (even I have a couple old installs on P3s), however our<br>collective procrastination is holding back progress and potential. Setting *some*<br>deadline and sticking to it will give people incentive to prepare their systems for xz.<br>
Otherwise people will procrastinate indefinitely and never be ready for it.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
As for the space savings, with this discussion we have surely wasted<br>
more bytes than gz would ever waste.<br></blockquote><div>For any given package, yes. But the aggregate savings would be more than what <br>we've "wasted" so far.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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I say leave it as is, default to .tgz for $PKGTYPE.<br></blockquote><div>It is _just_ a default. Changing the default won't prevent you from using gz, but it will<br>encourage people to upgrade to xz.<br></div></div>