[Pkg-fonts-devel] [idea]: please consider to compress your package with xz

Tue May 29 11:41:41 UTC 2012

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 07:41:16AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> > Additionally please only use xz (or bzip2 for that matter) if your
> > package really profits from its usage (for example, it provides a
> > significant space saving). 
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  The font package I maintain 'fonts-hosny-amiri' is 1.1M before xz 
  compression, and 596K after xz compression. So is it really worth it 
  for my case ?

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