Am 14.05.2013 09:30, schrieb Helmut Grohne: > 1) Raphael Hertzog suggested[1] that metadata could be stored > compressed. Is that implemented already? (As far as I can see it > would be part of file_show, but isn't.) If not, that would cause > an increase in installation size. I guess that a typical desktop > system would grow by about 50MB.
IIRC there was also the idea, to de-duplicate that metadata. E.g. for binary packages built from the same source package, you would only store the changelog and copyright once. Some packages do that manually via symlinks right now (an approach I don't particularly like). If this is done globally, I think this would actually result in space savings. Guillem, is that information about de-duplication correct? Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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