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Fri May  8 18:49:03 CDT 2009
  Hello folks!  This batch of updates includes the newly released KDE 4.2.3,
  but more noticeably it marks the first departure from the use of gzip for
  compressing Slackware packages.  Instead, we will be using xz, based on
  the LZMA compression algorithm.  xz offers better compression than even
  bzip2, but still offers good extraction performance (about 3 times better
  than bzip2 and not much slower than gzip in our testing).  Since support
  for bzip2 has long been requested, support for bzip2 and the original lzma
  format has also been added (why not?), but this is purely in the interest
  of completeness -- we think most people will probably want to use either
  the original .tgz or the new .txz compression wrappers.  The actual
  Slackware package format (which consists of the layout within the package
  envelope) has not changed, but this is the first support within Slackware's
  package tools for using alternate compression algorithms.
      Some people have asked why we don't pick a single extension, such as
  .slk.  While there's certainly a case to be made for that idea, the tools
  would still need to support .tgz to handle older packages.  Sticking with
  ".tgz" for everything makes no sense.  Using extensions that reflect the
  compression format used by the package envelope seems to be the most
  transparent approach, and the one that best follows tradition.
      As an example of the compression improvement with .txz, have a look
  at the kernel-source package:
  Before:  kernel-source-2.6.29.2_smp-noarch-1.tgz (73808508 bytes)
  After:   kernel-source-2.6.29.2_smp-noarch-1.txz (49150104 bytes)
  The size of the main package tree in /slackware has been reduced from
  1.9GB to 1.4GB by converting most packages to .txz.
      Most of the packages have been converted from .tgz to .txz, but we
  will continue to make the gzip, pkgtools, slackpkg, tar, and xz packages
  in .tgz format for the foreseeable future.
      Enjoy!  And thanks to Lasse Collin for the great work on xz.  :-)
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a/coreutils-7.4-i486-1.txz:  Upgraded to coreutils-7.4.
a/tar-1.22-i486-2.tgz:  Added support for .txz.  Thanks to Robby Workman.
ap/sqlite-3.6.13-i486-1.txz:  Upgraded to sqlite-3.6.13.
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