On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 01:45:45PM -0000, Daniel Alley wrote:
As long as there are existing xz-compressed files in the wild, Fedora will need to support consuming them - as long as there is software that expects xz compression, Fedora will need to support creating them. It's not going to disappear any time soon, and until then we're stuck with xz
There's also the issue that liblzma is widely used and offers specific features which zstd does not[1].
Rich.
[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/395#issuecomment-535875379