On Wednesday 01 August 2007 22:26:36 Bill Nottingham wrote:
bz2 makes things somewhat smaller, with a significant increase in
cpu time and memory usage; unknown how much that is worth it. rpm
already gzips the payload.
LZMA[1], implemented in 7zip, seems to be a better choice than bzip2, but I
don't know, how high the benefits compared to gzip are.
Regards,
Till
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZMA