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On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:06:47 +0100 |
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Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > the manpage formatter needs to call |
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> > external unpackers. All this to save 40M. I honestly don't think |
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> > it's worth it. |
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> Calling external tools in a pipeline is a pretty normal solution |
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> in the *nix world. It could be even considered safer than implementing |
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> multiple disjoint features in a single tool where an issue in one |
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> module could damage other parts of the program. |
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Its also possible to handle this in an inside-out mechansim |
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using a `zrun` from `sys-apps/moreutils` |
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zrun head -n 1 /usr/share/man/man1/cat.1.bz2 |
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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.35. |
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Its a bit of an unusual approach, but can do things where normal pipe become difficult |
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How it works becomes quickly apparent: |
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zrun md5sum /usr/share/man/man1/{cat,pr}.1.bz2 |
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88ca1b726a36ae027d435e4c21fe50ba /tmp/8NJoD5mrdJ-cat.1 |
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78bb81a36e4bf7c32dcf4231361a17d6 /tmp/6xSouo9fyC-pr.1 |
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Its a nice trick to have up your sleeve :) |
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