Hello Till, Till Kamppeter [2010-08-11 19:50 +0200]: > the Google Summer of Code 2010 is over and the only student working > for OpenPrinting, Vitor Baptista from Brazil, was successful with > the project of effectively compressing PPDs for PostScript printers > which are physically residing on the system. I have made use of this > software now in the foomatic-db and hplip packages leading to the > following savings: > > Binary Package *.deb file installed system > ------------------------------------------------------------ > openprinting-ppds ~4 MB ~5 MB > openprinting-ppds-extra ~18 MB ~28 MB > hplip-data ~4 MB ~26 MB
This is great to see, thanks for this work! > Note also that the splitting of openprinting-ppds and > openprinting-ppds-extra was done to remove a big part of the > space-consuming PPD files from the Desktop CD. Now as the data is > vastly compressed I am thinking about merging the PPDs of > openprinting-ppds-extra back into openprinting-ppds and doing away > with openprinting-ppds-extra. WDYT? That would add 15 MB after removing 8 MB, so this would still be a net loss of 7 MB; I don't think we can afford that, since we are still in "desperate mode" on the CDs -- we removed almost all langpacks before alpha-2, so we currently have almost no i18n support, and we already had to do a lot of work to get alpha-3 non-overflown. However, if we get enough space for -extra, I'd keep the split in any case, since it's not needed for the majority of systems. So it should still be possible to uninstall it on small footprint systems. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
