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From: Jan Stary <hans@×××××.cz>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 12:08:28
Message-Id: 20170110120814.GD4037@www.stare.cz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages by "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov"
1 On Jan 10 19:04:47, gentoo@×××.name wrote:
2 > > There is an option to support; the packages need to be reinstalled
3 > > or there are untracked files; the manpage formatter needs to call
4 > > external unpackers. All this to save 40M. I honestly don't think
5 > > it's worth it.
6 >
7 > Why do you care about calling external unpacker,
8 > but do not care about saving 40MB?
9
10 Because not having to call an external unpacker
11 allows for the manpage formatter to be simple;
12 whereas saving 40M of space is of no concern.

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