On Monday, September 20, 2010 01:59:33 Peter Volkov wrote: > В Вск, 19/09/2010 в 19:43 -0400, Mike Frysinger пишет: > > many man pages exist merely as a redirect to another man page: > > $ xzcat /usr/share/man/man1/zcat.1.xz > > .so man1/gzip.1 > > > > compressing these tiny (always?) results in a larger file. that means we > > arent saving space, and we're adding overhead at runtime. > > Isn't it better to skip compression on all tiny files (not only man > pages)? In such case some other functions will need to be updated too > (e.g. ecompress --suffix)...
perhaps, but i think it should only be done on automatic dirs like docs/info/man. as for the --suffix thing, where would that be an issue ? people already know they should never rely on these dirs being compressed with a predictable format. -mike
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