On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:18:03 +0100 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> 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?
Yup. It's a misfeature. You can see this by considering the proportion of ebuilds that honour it... > What about FEATURES="nodoc", ignore it too? FEATURES is purely a Portage internal, so ebuilds shouldn't be messing with it. > > 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 %? The proportion of ebuild-managed content in /usr/share/doc (with USE=doc, so it's a massive overestimate for space-relevant systems) vs elsewhere. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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