Ion-Mihai Tetcu <ite...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > It would be nice to support xz(1) compression for large selective > > packages like firefox or openoffice as those will never run on > > smaller systems. > > Trouble is it ain't no way (CPU, space, banhdwidth on our side and > space,bandwidth on our mirrors side) we could build a double set of > packages.
but perhaps it would be possible to support compressing certain ports' packages using xz _instead of_ bzip2, the specification being made in the port's Makefile and defaulting to bzip2 (current behavior) if no alternative compression method is specified. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
