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>>>>> On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> many man pages exist merely as a redirect to another man page: |
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> $ xzcat /usr/share/man/man1/zcat.1.xz |
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> .so man1/gzip.1 |
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> compressing these tiny (always?) results in a larger file. that means we |
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> arent saving space, and we're adding overhead at runtime. |
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> two options which we can do transparently: |
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> - rewrite the .so man pages into symlinks |
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> - omit them from compression |
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> the latter is pretty easy (see below). any preferences on which |
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> route to take though as the former shouldnt be too hard either ... |
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With "controllable compression" in EAPI 4, /usr/share/man will no |
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longer be special in any way. (Currently, the part of prepman that |
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your patch changes won't even be reached in EAPI 4.) |
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If we take the second route, then maybe it should be a more general |
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solution, i.e. exclude all tiny files (man page or not) from |
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compression? |
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But I think that rewriting the .so files into symlinks would be |
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cleaner. |
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Ulrich |
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