> ... you mean compression package used by most big distros to make their packages? Do you really need to ask Because of the existence of gzip, zlib, bzip2, an

> ... you mean compression package used by most big distros to make their packages? Do you really need to ask Because of the existence of gzip, zlib, bzip2, and many others, it's trivial to drop xz. So yeah, why not get rid of xz completely?