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With the zstd support in pacman, arch will soon switch all packages over to zstd.
by Svenstaro 8y ago
With the zstd support in pacman, arch will soon switch all packages over to zstd.
- lloeki 8y agoNitpick: it's actually in libarchive, pacman/makepkg doesn't really care about the format.
- jasonhansel 8y agoOut of curiosity: Why doesn't pacman just use HTTP's built-in compression? It could cache packages in gzipped form, but there's no reason to re-compress them over the wire.
- andrius4669 7y agoWhat would be gain?
- Svenstaro 7y agoBecause mirrors aren't guaranteed to use HTTP gzip compression and also gzip compresses much worse than xz.