From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/10192 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Barbato Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: New Exherbo+musl stage: x86_64-pc-linux-musl-20160621 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:59:44 +0200 Message-ID: <5f75f041-c6ff-92e3-6f8c-ec652073048a@gentoo.org> References: <20160621202207.32c23d4b@rafaela> <644E2E3D-9870-4FBC-9463-F70E1129FB98@shiz.me> <20160622122030.61bfcd2b@rafaela> <02193727-F911-45D1-A2BA-289592DD6460@shiz.me> <20160622125704.13795179@rafaela> 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 1466611213 5680 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2016 16:00:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:00:13 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-10205-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Jun 22 18:00:08 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 1bFkZU-00011T-3s for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:00:08 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 11389 invoked by uid 550); 22 Jun 2016 16:00:01 -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 11371 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2016 16:00:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2 In-Reply-To: <20160622125704.13795179@rafaela> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:10192 Archived-At: 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? xz took a lot of time to supplant bzip2 mainly because to make it viable you would need to provide alternatives. You might suggest to look at the format and help spreading the mindshare or act like a bully and make people consider the whole thing bad marketing and start ignoring you and your proposals like it is spam. my 2 cents. lu