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Date:      Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:04:35 +0300
From:      Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
To:        bf2006a@yahoo.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?
Message-ID:  <20081126110435.fe722ef8.stas@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <48704.32247.qm@web39107.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <9bbcef730811251141w63ad793as6efac3e7156bc2ef@mail.gmail.com> <48704.32247.qm@web39107.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:51:33 -0800 (PST)
bf <bf2006a@yahoo.com> mentioned:

> Not so long ago (the end of April, this year) someone tried to switch 
> ImageMagick to using lzma-compressed tarballs, and caught a lot of flak
> from others who were unfamiliar with this form of compression.  If Tim
> could integrate it with libarchive, I'm sure that it would be more 
> favorably received.
> 

Indeed, the main argument against was that you need an extra dependency
to unpack these, and there's no point in requiring that as bz2 versions
were available.

- -- 
Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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