Re: Gnome Boxes

[Ludovic Courtès]

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’.