René 'Necoro' Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:55:08 +0100:
> Depends on what PORTAGE_COMPRESS is set to ;) (Don't know WHERE this is > actually being set - but different systems seem to have different values > here). That's a newer portage make.conf variable; see the manpage. Apparently newer versions default to bz2, while older versions (before the setting was exposed as a variable) may have defaulted to gz. However, the user can now set any sort of exotic compression type he likes. (zip, rar, 7zip, zoo, anyone?) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
