Re: Preferring .gz with pkgin

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2021-10-12 at 01:34 BST, John Klos wrote:

> It has been asked on port-amiga@ and brought up elsewhere:
>
> https://github.com/NetBSDfr/pkgin/issues/112
>
> whether we can add a flag or another way to tell pkgin to prefer a 
> certain prefix over others for slower machines, or for machines with 
> less memory when we start to use xz.
>
> Thoughts or objections?

Nia asked about this on IRC this morning, I said I'd take a look at it, 
sounds reasonable to me.

While I have a captive audience, would anyone object to just dumping bz2 
at this point?  Seems like the worst of all worlds.

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