From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/10195 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: New Exherbo+musl stage: x86_64-pc-linux-musl-20160621 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:45:56 -0400 Message-ID: <20160622164556.GR10893@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20160621202207.32c23d4b@rafaela> <644E2E3D-9870-4FBC-9463-F70E1129FB98@shiz.me> <20160622122030.61bfcd2b@rafaela> <02193727-F911-45D1-A2BA-289592DD6460@shiz.me> <20160622125704.13795179@rafaela> <5f75f041-c6ff-92e3-6f8c-ec652073048a@gentoo.org> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466614041 20232 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2016 16:47:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:47:21 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-10208-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Jun 22 18:47:06 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bFlI2-00060R-F9 for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:46:10 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 19833 invoked by uid 550); 22 Jun 2016 16:46:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 19812 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2016 16:46:08 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5f75f041-c6ff-92e3-6f8c-ec652073048a@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:10195 Archived-At: On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:59:44PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 22/06/16 17:57, Matias A. Fonzo wrote: > > El Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:32:47 +0200 > > Shiz escribió: > >>> On 22 Jun 2016, at 17:20, Matias A. Fonzo wrote: > >>> > >>> Distribute files and impose to your users in having xz, is a bad > >>> idea. > >> > >> I don’t think you understand what I said. Technical arguments about > >> the superiority of your format aren’t particularly relevant if the > >> user can’t decompress it in the first place. > >> > >> - Shiz > >> > > > > I understand that you are losing in make the right thing just for the > > availability of a bad implementation. If the user can't decompress is > > really your main concern, think in the RAM usage as a possible > > limitation (among other things). > > > > The format seems a little too new and you seem to derail the discussion > in a mailing list unrelated to the main project (exherbo). > > Would you please stop flaming? I'd like to second this. The discussion about xz is irrelevant to the thread it was posted on and to this list. It might be relevant on the Exherbo lists (up to them to decide) but the post here was just announcing a release of a distro using musl, not soliciting input for that distro's choice of archive format. Rich