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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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> 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 route to take |
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> though as the former shouldnt be too hard either ... |
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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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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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