Hi relax.
As I said, I "understand ..". See below :)
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 06:48:26PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:52:26 +0900
> Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > But, we have fast CPUs so it is not too bad. Under gnome, fileroller
> > will open it for you from filer.
>
> But I don't want to unzip a pdf to my home directory. This wasts space.
> Last pdf I saw gzipped was only 6% smaller. If I have to gunzip it to
> my local home directory I actually use 194 % more space than I needed
> if the pdf wasn't gzipped.
Neither do I want to unzip.
> If the system has 10 people and everybody does this then please tell my
> why gzipping the file saves space?!?
>
> > So it is non-issue for modern machine. We live with current rule.
Maybe I should have said I live ...
> No it is not. Because I (for one) want user friendliness. Why should I
> waste my time gunzipping X files to get the info I need to do my job?
> We talk about Linux being more efficient than say Windows, but if we
> constantly have to jump over hurdles like this, everything slows
> down....
>
> > Real issue is saving space for compact systems. There we will have
> > support in dpkg which can be told to drop installing
> > in /usr/share/doc/* or something like it.
>
> If it is a compact system, then why on earth would you install doc
> packages? It doesn't make sense.
>
> If one really really need to gzip, then make all applications in the
> default Debian system able to handle gzipped files so there is no need
> to unzip them to your local area and in fact use more space than
> needed.
The point is, if this mechanism is active, there is no point to gzip
pdf/ps/txt file in /usr/share/doc/* in regular package either.
> Best wishes
>
> Preben
For architecture: all *-doc packages, there is no technical and
practical reason to gzip *.pdf file. I agree. packages are gziped so
package size d nt change. We do it just because of policy and bcause
helper script is written such way as I said.
If anyone wants this to be fixed following should happen.
* Write a patch to the debhelper gzip text/pdf/ps file logic
- do not compress if the package is *-doc and file extension is pdf.
- possibly even avoid compressing if the result of compression gain
less than **% (10% ?? or 1KB) of size.
* propose policy update proposal. (debian-policy)
Unless someone do the first work, nothing will change. It is non-issue
for me now (so I will not do it) but I have no reason to object such an
rational move.
Please go ahead spend your good time :) Once I see technical solution,
I will support policy change.
Cheers,
Osamu
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