On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 01:42:40PM +0800, Deng Xiyue wrote: > There's been a long standing performance issue of using xfonts-wqy due > to compression. As Fang Qianqian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pointed > out, the Debian Policy[1] requires pcf to be gzipped. However, due to > the huge set of Chinese characters, the compression brings serious > performance issue as pointed out in bug #384149[2]. There is intention > to ship such fonts ungzipped, which should alleviate the situatio. Due > to the complication with Debian Policy, we think it'd better to have a > discussion in debian-devel and debian-policy mailing lists for a > suggestion.
Hello Xiyue, Could we have some hard numbers ? What is the space saving of compressing them ? What is the time to uncompress them ? What is the amount of the performance issue ? If this suggests that both approach have merit, maybe we could add a debconf question asking whether they should be gunzip'ed after installation to accomodate people with different space/speed requirement ? Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
