No lzma sdk in fedora?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Feb 12 11:57:57 UTC 2010


Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> We have an out of date version that isn't getting updated upstream and
> we have a replacement library that uses a different API but which can
> probably do what you want with some wrappers.
> 
> I have an interest in this as well as the development version of squashfs
> tools uses the latest SDK and won't directly work with either current
> library.
> 
> Bundling it wouldn't be permitted.
> 
> Personally I'd like to see it replace the old lzma stuff, since xz
> provides compatible utility programs and I don't think anything else is
> likely to be using that library. Having three libraries doing almost the
> same thing seems excessive.

Yeah, please package the LZMA SDK as lzma-sdk, the sooner we can get an 
LZMA-enabled squashfs, the better! (The KDE spin could really use the saved 
space!)

        Kevin Kofler



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