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From: Sven Eden <sven.eden@×××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 07:45:52
Message-Id: 5698263.f4uoiIzJWG@sed-notebook
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages by Walter Dnes
1 Am Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2017, 19:08:05 CET schrieb Walter Dnes:
2 > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 05:15:25PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote
3 >
4 > > On Jan 11 13:34:09, sven.eden@×××.de wrote:
5 > > > Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2017, 13:36:15 CET schrieb Jan Stary:
6 > > > > > You arguing that 40MB is nothing on modern systems (which, by the
7 > > > > > way is
8 > > > > > not exactly true, talking about embedded ones).
9 > > > >
10 > > > > Can you gove an example of an embedded system with manpages?
11 > > >
12 > > > My Raspberry Pi 3. ;-)
13 > >
14 > > How is that an embedded system?
15 > > It's a full blown linux installation.
16 >
17 > Not every "full blown linux installation" has a multi-terabyte hard
18 > drive attached. There are small laptops with SSDs instead of spinning
19 > disks.
20
21 And my Raspberry PI 3 has less CPU power, less RAM and less storage space than
22 my goddam android cell phone. ;-)
23
24 Btw.: Even "embedded experts" wholeheartedly agree that they disagree what
25 "embedded" actually is. But I do think SoCs actually *do* qualify, at least to
26 some degree...

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