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diff --git a/distro/base.scm b/distro/base.scm
index 62a934a79d..c945205b72 100644
--- a/distro/base.scm
+++ b/distro/base.scm
@@ -205,6 +205,33 @@ superior compression ratio of gzip is just a bonus.")
(license "GPLv3+")
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/")))
+(define-public xz
+ (package
+ (name "xz")
+ (version "5.0.4")
+ (source (origin
+ (method http-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-" version
+ ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "1dl35ca8fdss9z2d6y234gxh24ixq904xksizrjmjr5dimwhax6n"))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (description
+ "XZ, general-purpose data compression software, successor of LZMA")
+ (long-description
+ "XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with high
+compression ratio. XZ Utils were written for POSIX-like systems, but also
+work on some not-so-POSIX systems. XZ Utils are the successor to LZMA Utils.
+
+The core of the XZ Utils compression code is based on LZMA SDK, but it has
+been modified quite a lot to be suitable for XZ Utils. The primary
+compression algorithm is currently LZMA2, which is used inside the .xz
+container format. With typical files, XZ Utils create 30 % smaller output
+than gzip and 15 % smaller output than bzip2.")
+ (license '("GPLv2+" "LGPLv2.1+")) ; bits of both
+ (home-page "http://tukaani.org/xz/")))
+
(define-public patch
(package
(name "patch")