Re: [arch-general] Suggestion: switch to zstd -19 for compressing packages over xz

2019-03-17 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 03/16/19 at 10:59pm, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > On 16/03/2019 13:24, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > suggest replacing xz with lzip as xz has quite a few flaws in its file > > format. > > I seem to remember that this has been debunked/ruled out as irrelevant > to package distribution every time it

Re: [arch-general] Suggestion: switch to zstd -19 for compressing packages over xz

2019-03-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 00:05:50 -0700, Adam Fontenot wrote: >I think you're overstating your case a little bit. In the United >States, nothing less than 25 Mbps can legally be called broadband There are several Internet related developing countries, such as Germany, were ISPs don't fulfil the contrac

Re: [arch-general] Suggestion: switch to zstd -19 for compressing packages over xz

2019-03-17 Thread Adam Fontenot via arch-general
On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 5:01 AM Dan Sommers <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote: > My situation is similar to Darren's: My primary connection > to the internet is through my cell phone carrier and a > mobile WiFi hot spot. In urban areas, I can get as much as > 50 megabits per second, but