pbzip2 isn't faster

[Chris Jones]

> On 5 Apr 2014, at 06:02 pm, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 20:39:26 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Since the MacPorts build system now accommodates adding third-party
>> software into the build, if pbzip2 works reliably, it might be nice
>> to include it with MacPorts and use it at least for compression and
>> decompression of the archives, if not also for bzip2 distfiles and
>> patchfiles.
> 
> Fedora is currently in the progress of switching to lbzip2. I don't
> know how if this implementation is related to pbzip2, but the goals
> sound similar.
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/lbzip2
> 
> We do not have a port for it yet, though.

Reading the web site, they claim lbzip2 can handle unzipping any bz2 file in parallel, unlike pbzip2. This seems like a distinct advantage, and given it seems well maintained, i think makes it a much better replacement possibility.

> 
> Rainer
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