RPM roadmapping

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Wed Aug 1 21:36:21 UTC 2007


David Nielsen wrote:
> ons, 01 08 2007 kl. 23:14 +0200, skrev Till Maas:
>> LZMA[1], implemented in 7zip, seems to be a better choice than bzip2, but I 
>> don't know, how high the benefits compared to gzip are.
> 
> We can turn to our friends in the Ubuntu community for numbers as they
> actually tested this a while back.
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Dpkg7Zip

Although we ought to do our own testing.  Ubuntu also said they saved a 
ton of time by switching from bash to dash for initscripts, but our 
testing showed no improvement.




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