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On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:18:03 +0100 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> > If you don't explicitly need compression, don't do anything. |
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> You mean if the user has requested compression with PORTAGE_COMPRESS, |
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> ignore it? |
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Yup. It's a misfeature. You can see this by considering the proportion |
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of ebuilds that honour it... |
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> What about FEATURES="nodoc", ignore it too? |
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FEATURES is purely a Portage internal, so ebuilds shouldn't be messing |
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with it. |
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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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> Typical documentation consists of text files, so I would expect to |
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> save of the order of 50 % by compressing them. How did you obtain |
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> above number of 4 %? |
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The proportion of ebuild-managed content in /usr/share/doc (with |
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USE=doc, so it's a massive overestimate for space-relevant systems) vs |
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elsewhere. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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