Hello Jérôme, you have been filing such bugs in Ubuntu and I closed at least one you filed against dpkg.
I hope that if this debian-policy request gets turned off, you will stop filing such wishlist bugs everywhere. On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Jérôme wrote: > Most of the time I think that log files compression lowers the system > performance on desktop computers which have now enough disk space for storing > old logs. "Thinking" is not enough, we would like to see facts. There are many cases where there are requirements to keep logs over multiple years and keeping all those logs uncompressed is a waste of the disk space. > The question is not about cpu and memory resources but mostly about energy > consumption. 1/ Buying a supplementary disk (and thus producing it) consumes probably more energy than compressing files on the former disk. 2/ It's not clear that you get any significant reduction of energy consumption. Sure compressing/decompressing takes some CPU, but then reading on the disk also consumes energy and a smaller file is read faster. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org