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#386 Kinoite: preinstall brotli?
Closed: Deferred to upstream by boredsquirrel. Opened by boredsquirrel.

Closed: Deferred to upstream
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Brotli is a modern compression method with CLI interface made by Google. I think it may be useful, it is used for web development, but is also an alternative for the various compression tools on Linux.

It is embedded into Peazip which is also available as a flatpak. Though, I guess the cli tool is not easy to use, and in KDE using Ark would deduplicate lots of packages.

Layering it installs those packages, I think the latter is a dependency

  brotli-1.0.9-11.fc38.x86_64
  liblerc-4.0.0-3.fc38.x86_64

Would this be a useful package for desktop Linux? I think this could be discussed here or in Discuss

When asking for a new package to be included, you need to answer a lot more questions than what you usually do here.

Please take the content of the issue template from Silverblue (https://github.com/fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker/issues/new?assignees=&labels=enhancement&projects=&template=new-package.md&title=New+Package+Request%3A+%3Cpackage+name%3E) and answer the questions.

In this case, if Ark supports this compression algorithm then this should be added as a recommends to Ark. If not this is an RFE for Ark. In any case, you can install it in a toolbox.

I found https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1238 and https://github.com/ib/xarchiver/issues/86 which are not promising so I don't expect that to be fixed soon.

thank you, are templates possible in pagure?

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Okay, having it included into Ark would be the correct way

Metadata Update from @boredsquirrel:
- Issue close_status updated to: Deferred to upstream
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

I've added the templates in https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/blob/main/f/templates.

I've tried following https://docs.pagure.org/pagure/usage/ticket_templates.html but this apparently does not work for an unknown reason.
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