use_xz?

Vincent Lefevre vincent-opdarw at vinc17.org
Sat Aug 8 12:30:31 PDT 2009


Does MacPorts have a use_xz variable? Some tarballs are now distributed
in both gz and xz compression format, and xz is significantly smaller
than gz. For instance, for the coreutils 7.4:

  .tar.gz   9.3 MB
  .tar.xz   3.9 MB

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