RPM roadmapping

[Rahul Sundaram]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Horst H. von Brand (vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl) said: 
>> cpio is a real standard archive format (there are something like a half
>> dozen _different_ tar formats around) plus it is very simple.
>>
>> gz, bz2, etc are file compression standards, that is completely
>> orthogonal to the packing. And yes, if we are looking for new RPM
>> features, perhaps a look at better compression would be in order...
> 
> bz2 makes things somewhat smaller, with a significant increase in
> cpu time and memory usage; unknown how much that is worth it. 

I think someone from SUSE said it has not been worth the trouble to them 
here previously.

Rahul