On Sat, 30 Mar 2024 16:02:25 +0100 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2024-03-30 at 14:57 +0000, Eddie Chapman wrote: > > Note, I'm not advocating ripping xz-utils out of tree, all I'm > > saying is wouldn't it be nice if there were at least 2 alternatives > > to choose from? That doesn't have to be disruptive in any way, > > people who wish to continue using and trusting xz-utils should be > > able to continue to do so without any friction whatsoever. > > So, you're basically saying we should go out of our way, recompress > all distfiles using two alternative compression formats, increase > mirror load four times and add a lot of complexity to ebuilds, right? > How would Gentoo even recompress all .xz distfiles if xz-utils is not even in the repo? And this will certainly be a reoccurring theme...
