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On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:06:46 +0000 |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:39:58 +0100 |
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> Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Then, for the nth time, what would be the good solution? |
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> If you explicitly need compression, do it by hand, since there aren't |
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> any mechanisms for guaranteed compression anyway. |
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Yes of course. |
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> If you don't explicitly need compression, don't do anything. |
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... and mark relevant stuff as "ok to be compressed with whatever suits |
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you best"... sounds familiar? :) |
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> And if you're trying to make a space-critical distribution, start |
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> looking at the big things, not the 4% things. |
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When I do something space critical I exclude /usr/share/doc and a |
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couple of others... that doesn't mean I do like wasting space on |
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something not space critical when compression algorithms exist. |
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Alexis. |
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