a few tar.xz packages are bigger than their uncompressed tar
Marco Atzeri
marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Sun Sep 24 19:19:00 GMT 2017
On 24/09/2017 20:46, Jérôme Bouat wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I looked into the local folder where the downloaded packages are saved
> before they are installed. I noticed that a few compressed archives
> files are using more size than their uncompressed form. For example, the
> libstdc++6-6.4.0-1.tar.xz file uses more space than its uncompressed tar
> file (on cygwin x86_64).
I do not see it
$ ls -s libstdc++6-6.4.0-1.tar.xz
280K libstdc++6-6.4.0-1.tar.xz
$ ls -s usr/bin/cygstdc++-6.dll
1.4M usr/bin/cygstdc++-6.dll
Regards
Marco
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