On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:42:46PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Adam Borowski wrote:
> > Except that busybox has xz support, and is loaded from an udeb way before
> > any regular debs are seen. Ie, there is no reason to stop "core packages"
> > from using decent compression.
>
> Yes there is. busybox is used on a variety of systems, which are
> unlikely to have xz installed. The small benefit of better compressing
> base does not justify narrowing the set of systems on which busybox can
> be used.
That's why busybox includes xz :)
It has been available upstream for a while, hasn't been enabled in Debian
until recently:
commit 6b7d1195cfabcd1b192e618b40367edda05ed1dd
Author: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Date: Sun Nov 6 19:14:14 2011 +0400
added support for unxz (CONFIG_UNXZ) to udeb (+8Kb on i386)
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