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From: "vivo75@×××××.com" <vivo75@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using .xz for doc/man/info compression
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 13:17:45
Message-Id: 53736CC9.7000108@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using .xz for doc/man/info compression by Andrew Savchenko
1 On 05/13/14 13:01, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
2 > f we are trying to consider a majority of users (and thus to
3 > select reasonable defaults), from disk usage + decompression
4 > overhead point of view it will be the best to store compressed files
5 > if they are at least one filesystem block smaller than original
6 > file. FS block size may be extracted runtime for any man or doc, or
7 > alike directory used, so this is doable. But this approach may
8 > overcomplicate implementation.
9 The filesystem on which the files will end is totally unknown to
10 portage, since it could be a different machine using binpkg