Yves> I remember that a long time ago it was said that it was okay to gzip
Yves> manual pages because the manual reader did handle them nicely?
Lars> Our man seems to handle them OK. Since there can be tens of
Lars> megabytes of manual pages (I have 18 MB), I think compressing them
Lars> would be a good idea.
We already compress them. I seem to have 108 compressed man pages, coming
from 14 of the 210 packages I have installed.
Could this be added to the guidelines as either a policy, or at least an
option?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> find /usr/man -name \*.gz | wc -l
108
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> grep -l -e "/usr/man.*gz" /var/lib/dpkg/info/*list | wc -l
14
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -1 /var/lib/dpkg/info/*list | wc -l
210
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Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
