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From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: compress INDEX with xz, instead of bz2?
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A very minor point

# make fetchindex
/usr/ports/INDEX-10.bz2                       100% of 1621 kB  208 kBps
# ls -al INDEX-10 
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26284787 Jul  7 20:08 INDEX-10
# xz INDEX-10 
# ls -al INDEX-10.xz 
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1350156 Jul  7 20:08 INDEX-10.xz
# 

So xz saves ~19% compared to bz2 for this file.

Now that xz is in the base,
perhaps making INDEX available compressed
with xz would help some people who are still
on slow download lines.

-- 
Anton Shterenlikht
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