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		saghm on April 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2017... Is this really an issue for this use case? My naive take is that since Arch updates packages so often, "long-term storage" doesn't come up that much in practice.

aidenn0 on April 20, 2018 [–]

It's zero issue since the packages are updated regularly and hashed before installing.

saghm on April 20, 2018 | [–]

Good point, I hadn't even thought of checksums!

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