Re: [gentoo-dev] prepalldocs is now banned

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> If you don't explicitly need compression, don't do anything.

You mean if the user has requested compression with PORTAGE_COMPRESS,
ignore it? What about FEATURES="nodoc", ignore it too?

> And if you're trying to make a space-critical distribution, start
> looking at the big things, not the 4% things.

Typical documentation consists of text files, so I would expect to
save of the order of 50 % by compressing them. How did you obtain
above number of 4 %?

Ulrich