Re: Preferring .gz with pkgin

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 12:37:06PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 at 09:28, Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > * On 2021-10-12 at 01:34 BST, John Klos wrote:
> >
> > >It has been asked on port-amiga@ and brought up elsewhere:
> > >
> > >https://github.com/NetBSDfr/pkgin/issues/112
> > >
> > >whether we can add a flag or another way to tell pkgin to prefer a
> > >certain prefix over others for slower machines, or for machines with
> > >less memory when we start to use xz.
> > >
> > >Thoughts or objections?
> >
> > Nia asked about this on IRC this morning, I said I'd take a look at it,
> > sounds reasonable to me.
> >
> > While I have a captive audience, would anyone object to just dumping bz2
> > at this point?  Seems like the worst of all worlds.
> 
> bz2 wins for a low memory high compute case, but probably not enough
> over gzip to warrant the extra effort to generate, additional fetch
> attempts etc.
> 
> I'd strongly support dropping bz2 to just have gzip and xz.

IMO it would be better to drop gzip in that case. The summary file
should be fetched once and decompressed locally once and if it takes a
few seconds longer it still doesn't really make a usability difference.

Joerg