On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:39:18PM +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Does LZMA have any drawbacks? It is far less deployed as bzip2, so manually unpacking .deb packages on some random GNU/Linux or Unix rescue system is more likely to fail. Bzip2 is pretty ubiquitous these days, so comparing lzma numbers to bzip2 might make sense as well. Michael