>>>>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Yes, the default should be changed for everyone. > To PORTAGE_COMPRESS="xz".
Back in 2013, vapier had made extensive studies of compression tools for man pages and documentation, and the conclusion was that bzip2 gives the best overall compression ratio for these files. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169260 Ulrich
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