Bill Nottingham wrote:
Horst H. von Brand (vonbrand(a)inf.utfsm.cl) said:
> cpio is a real standard archive format (there are something like a half
> dozen _different_ tar formats around) plus it is very simple.
>
> gz, bz2, etc are file compression standards, that is completely
> orthogonal to the packing. And yes, if we are looking for new RPM
> features, perhaps a look at better compression would be in order...
bz2 makes things somewhat smaller, with a significant increase in
cpu time and memory usage; unknown how much that is worth it.
I think someone from SUSE said it has not been worth the trouble to them
here previously.
Rahul