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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 00:08:54
Message-Id: 20170113000805.GA12481@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages by Jan Stary
1 On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 05:15:25PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote
2 > On Jan 11 13:34:09, sven.eden@×××.de wrote:
3 > > Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2017, 13:36:15 CET schrieb Jan Stary:
4 > > > > You arguing that 40MB is nothing on modern systems (which, by the way is
5 > > > > not exactly true, talking about embedded ones).
6 > > >
7 > > > Can you gove an example of an embedded system with manpages?
8 > >
9 > > My Raspberry Pi 3. ;-)
10 >
11 > How is that an embedded system?
12 > It's a full blown linux installation.
13
14 Not every "full blown linux installation" has a multi-terabyte hard
15 drive attached. There are small laptops with SSDs instead of spinning
16 disks.
17
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19 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
20 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages Sven Eden <sven.eden@×××.de>