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Svenstaro
on April 17, 2019
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Zstandard v1.4.0
With the zstd support in pacman, arch will soon switch all packages over to zstd.
lloeki
on April 17, 2019
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Nitpick: it's actually in libarchive, pacman/makepkg doesn't really care about the format.
jasonhansel
on April 17, 2019
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Out of curiosity: Why doesn't pacman just use HTTP's built-in compression? It could cache packages in gzipped form, but there's no reason to re-compress them over the wire.
Svenstaro
on April 20, 2019
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Because mirrors aren't guaranteed to use HTTP gzip compression and also gzip compresses much worse than xz.
andrius4669
on April 17, 2019
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