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| From: | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages | ||
| Date: | Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:40:04 | ||
| Message-Id: | 22644.58381.462509.842943@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages by Mart Raudsepp |
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| 1 | >>>>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Mart Raudsepp wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > Yes, the default should be changed for everyone. |
| 4 | > To PORTAGE_COMPRESS="xz". |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Back in 2013, vapier had made extensive studies of compression tools |
| 7 | for man pages and documentation, and the conclusion was that bzip2 |
| 8 | gives the best overall compression ratio for these files. |
| 9 | https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169260 |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Ulrich |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages | Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> |