Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] omitting redirecting man pages from compression
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:09:20
Message-Id: 19607.1457.773911.422023@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] omitting redirecting man pages from compression by Mike Frysinger
1 >>>>> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2
3 >> Isn't it better to skip compression on all tiny files (not only man
4 >> pages)? In such case some other functions will need to be updated
5 >> too (e.g. ecompress --suffix)...
6
7 > perhaps, but i think it should only be done on automatic dirs like
8 > docs/info/man.
9
10 It's not really an issue outside of /usr/share/man. On my system, I
11 count about 5600 tiny (smaller than 100 chars uncompressed) files in
12 man, 170 in doc, and none in info.
13
14 Ulrich