F21 System Wide Change: lbzip2 as default bzip2 implementation

[Mikolaj Izdebski]

> On 2 April 2014 21:46, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> > <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> >>> ** possibly adjust spec files to require or build-require lbzip2 instead
> >>> of
> >>> bzip2.
> >> Is this necessary? Wouldn't it be better to have lbzip2 Provide bzip2
> >> or something so that updating all those packages is not necessary,
> >> and also that people who prefer normal bzip2 can still use it?
> >
> > Why would people prefer it? If it is the same but slower?
> 
> Yes, if it's interface compatible then it's pretty nice. Multithreaded
> compression is handy from time to time. Pity about no library
> interface (lbzip2 might be an unfortunate name choice...),
> particularly for things like perl and python. I suppose from the pov
> of minimal systems it might be nice to not have to have both if you
> need to fulfil both a bzip2 library requirement and a bzip2
> requirement, but that's a very particular case for a few kB saving.

It shouldn't be difficult to provide library interface.  In fact
I considered planned it from the very beginning, but then lacked motivation.
I'm sure that accepting this Change will be a motivator good enough for me
to finally do this.

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Mikolaj Izdebski