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Bug 856385 - quickpkg uses bzip2
Summary: quickpkg uses bzip2
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2022-07-04 12:33 UTC by Sergey 'L29Ah' Alirzaev
Modified: 2022-10-20 02:00 UTC (History)
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Description Sergey 'L29Ah' Alirzaev 2022-07-04 12:33:31 UTC 
bzip2 is slow, doesn't support multithreading and generally is inefficient compared to lzma/zstd. No good reason to use it.

`man make.conf` suggests that BINPKG_COMPRESS governs this and defaults to zstd, yet on my system with latest portage and no BINPKG_COMPRESS instances in /etc, bzip2 is used for some strange reason.
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2022-07-04 20:15:15 UTC 
You probably just need to set BINPKG_COMPRESS=zstd, since for existing installs it defaults to bzip2 for backward compatibility.