On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:30:45 +0100 Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yet I've got several machines with limited disk space where I really > *do* care if things are compressed. After all, disk space is *always* > used up when it's in use and CPU is only used on the odd occasion when > you actually decompress the files in question. The laptop where I'm > typing this right now is my main Debian devel machine these days, as > well as the machine I carry around with music etc. on it. The less I > use up space on the -doc packages I have installed, the more > music/data files I have space for on the disk... 1. On your limited HD machines how many -doc packages have you installed that you really need since you have a laptop? 2. If you prefer music over documentation, so what? Then I say that you should bzip2 all your html and pdf files and unpack them when needed. Then you'll get more mp3's on your computer too... Please, stay on topic... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
