Re: Lzip for NetBSD

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hi!

> I have noticed you recently added the xz package to pkgsrc.se.
>
> Perhaps you may find interesting the similar but much simpler lzip package.
> http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html
>
> "Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with  
> very safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of  
> gzip or bzip2. Lzip decompresses almost as fast as gzip and compresses  
> better than bzip2, which makes it well suited for software distribution  
> and data archiving."

I've just added it as pkgsrc/archivers/lzip.

Cheers,
 Thomas