Alejandro Colomar writes:
> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> [Added back linux-man@, and people that commented on this (sub)topic]
> [Added Sam, I've got a question for you]
>
> Hi Alexis,
>
> Please keep (at least) linux-man@ in the loop.
>
> On 4/9/23 08:44, Alexis wrote:
>>
>> As a related da
Hi Sam,
> I started looking into changing to xz (or just.. not bz2, anyway)
If you're putting effort into researching another compressor then
consider lzip(1). https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html
Its author compares it against xz in particular.
https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 4:36 PM Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> If you're putting effort into researching another compressor then
> consider lzip(1). https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html
>
> Its author compares it against xz in particular.
> https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
lzip is cool a
Hi Mingye,
> the thing is we are talking about storage for distribution on every
> single person's computer
No, I was talking to s...@gentoo.org so I assumed Gentoo as the target.
> We are looking at a world where almost every system has xz installed
> because of some past decisions, unfortunate
On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:13:13 +0100
Sam James wrote:
>
> Alejandro Colomar writes:
>
> > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> > [Added back linux-man@, and people that commented on this (sub)topic]
> > [Added Sam, I've got a question for you]
> >
> > Hi Alexis,
> >
> > Please keep (at least) linux-m
Hi all,
After the suggestion by Ralph of trying .lz, Sam's comment about .xz),
and Kerin's comment about tuning the compression parameters, I decided
to try out everything at once, so we can see the effects of the
alternatives.
TL;DR: For manual pages, use uncompressed source, or gzip(1).
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 10:24 PM Alejandro Colomar
wrote:
> $ sudo make install-man prefix=/opt/local/man/xz___ -j LINK_PAGES=symlink
> Z=.xz XZFLAGS= | wc -l
Small nitpick here as Kerin's recommended pb=0 isn't actually used.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/169260#c19 (from Kerin) suggests that w
Hi Mingye,
On 4/12/23 20:52, Mingye Wang wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 10:24 PM Alejandro Colomar
> wrote:
>> $ sudo make install-man prefix=/opt/local/man/xz___ -j LINK_PAGES=symlink
>> Z=.xz XZFLAGS= | wc -l
>
> Small nitpick here as Kerin's recommended pb=0 isn't actually used.
> ht
