----- Original Message ----- From: Josselin Mouette <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010 12:57 am Subject: Re: including full package source code in the debian release To: Jamie Morken <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]
> There are two little flaws in your reasoning. > 1. Compression ratios, even for source > code, don’t reach 99%. Hi, I have seen some 7zip archives that can get up to a compression factor over 100 (ie. large wikipedia database dumps: enwiki-20080103-pages-meta-history.xml.7z 18GB enwiki-20080103-pages-meta-history.xml 2.8TB! Maybe this high compression is due to the xml repeating markup's in addition to the large file size, not sure though, but it is impressive compression. > 2. There are other very little things > in source packages, such as, > I don’t know… data? > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/source/iso-dvd/ > > The overall size of the full compressed sources is 17 GB. Tell > me this > has only a minor impact. I forgot to consider images/data etc. Thanks for the clarification. cheers, Jamie > > -- > .''`. Josselin Mouette > : :' : > `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that > you in > `- future understand > things” -- Jörg Schilling > >
