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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Gnome Boxes
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:18:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s7lqop7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EC08C613-5337-447F-A942-48247F8F520C@lepiller.eu> (Julien Lepiller's message of "Thu, 11 Feb 2021 06:37:03 -0500")

Hi,

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:

> When submitting the MR to libosinfo, there were concerns that the .xz extension would cause problems with other software, so we left it out.
>
> I think we should provide a .iso download directly, if we want gnome boxes to propose the guix system.

We could do that but… isn’t it a bit ridiculous?  I mean, compression is
a well-known technique to reduce bandwidth usage, right?  :-)

That said, we now produce compressed ISOs IIRC, so it might be that the
extra compression layer doesn’t buy us much.  Would be worth checking!

Thanks,
Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-18 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-09 13:58 Gnome Boxes Adriano Peluso
2021-02-11 11:37 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-02-18 17:18   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-02-18 18:10     ` Julien Lepiller
2021-02-18 19:56       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-02-18 21:22         ` Julien Lepiller
2021-02-22  5:39           ` Evan Rowley
2021-02-23  2:20             ` Installing via iso.xz, really best idea? -- was " Bengt Richter

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