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Re: Change request of devel/autoconf to use .tar.gz



On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:00:08 -0400
Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:

> Are there any really good reasons why we shouldn't prefer .tar.gz or
> .tar.bz2 distfiles over .xz whenever we possibly can, given that there
> seem to be a non-zero level of issues with xz?

We should definitely use .xz when it's more widespread. As I've stated
previously I don't think we gain much by adopting it early.


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