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On Sunday, September 19, 2010 19:50:57 Zac Medico wrote: |
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> On 09/19/2010 04:43 PM, 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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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> > the latter is pretty easy (see below). any preferences on which route to |
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> > take though as the former shouldnt be too hard either ... |
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> |
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> It feels like an insignificant optimization to me, but I don't feel |
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> strongly either way. |
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~19% of the man pages on my system appear to be forwarding files (glorified |
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symlinks). in my case, that's almost 3000 files. considering things like |
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`makewhatis` need to decompress & read all of these, i think the difference is |
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worth addressing. |
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-mike |
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