From: | Peter Volkov <pva@g.o> | ||
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To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] omitting redirecting man pages from compression | ||
Date: | Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:08:27 | ||
Message-Id: | 1284962373.24593.1320.camel@tablet | ||
In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] omitting redirecting man pages from compression by Mike Frysinger |
1 | В Вск, 19/09/2010 в 19:43 -0400, Mike Frysinger пишет: |
2 | > many man pages exist merely as a redirect to another man page: |
3 | > $ xzcat /usr/share/man/man1/zcat.1.xz |
4 | > .so man1/gzip.1 |
5 | > |
6 | > compressing these tiny (always?) results in a larger file. that means we |
7 | > arent saving space, and we're adding overhead at runtime. |
8 | |
9 | Isn't it better to skip compression on all tiny files (not only man |
10 | pages)? In such case some other functions will need to be updated too |
11 | (e.g. ecompress --suffix)... |
12 | |
13 | -- |
14 | Peter. |
Subject | Author |
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Re: [gentoo-dev] omitting redirecting man pages from compression | Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> |
Re: [gentoo-dev] omitting redirecting man pages from compression | Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> |