On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net> wrote: > Am 26.09.2012 22:43, schrieb Matt Turner: >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> A few months ago, I filed bug 423651 to ask that bzip2 on the install >>> media be replaced with >>> pbzip2. It was closed a short while later, telling me that it'd >>> involve changing what's kept in @system, and that had to be discussed >>> here, rather than in a bug report. >> >> If we're going to ship a parallel bzip2 implementation, it should be >> lbzip2 and not pbzip2. >> >> lbzip2 can decompress bz2 archives with multiple threads that haven't >> been compressed with lbzip2/pbzip2. >> > > This seems relevant, especially comment 12ff: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309683 > > For further anecdotal evidence: I've used pbzip2 with USE="symlink" for > several months now and never had trouble with it. Checking out lbzip2 > now. I noticed it doesn't install a bunzip2 symlink.
Piotr Szymaniak asked me about lbzip2, and I bounced the question over to my friend. He didn't investigate it deeply; it crashed (OOM or something else, I don't know) when he tried it on a large file. Could have been from 2GB to 2TB, from what he has laying around. I don't know; I didn't get that one in writing. :) But if it proves to be stable for small and very large files, I'd have no complaint. :) -- :wq
