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On Monday, September 20, 2010 01:59:33 Peter Volkov wrote: |
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> В Вск, 19/09/2010 в 19:43 -0400, Mike Frysinger пишет: |
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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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> > |
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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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> Isn't it better to skip compression on all tiny files (not only man |
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> pages)? In such case some other functions will need to be updated too |
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> (e.g. ecompress --suffix)... |
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perhaps, but i think it should only be done on automatic dirs like |
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docs/info/man. as for the --suffix thing, where would that be an issue ? |
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people already know they should never rely on these dirs being compressed with |
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a predictable format. |
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-mike |
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