Changing dpkg-deb default compression from gzip to lzma for Hardy

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Mon Dec 17 17:00:32 UTC 2007


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Scott Ritchie wrote:
> I believe lzma has a fairly efficient decompression time. We should
>  note, however, that package installation time is one of the least
> important places to optimize CPU usage - it's not user-interactive,
> and is very frequently done after the user has stopped doing other
> things.
I usually sit there waiting for the package to install.  If I'm
installing something, it probably means I want to use it sometime
about right then.

- -- Mackenzie Morgan
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