On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 19:55:12 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:33:48 +0100, Lars Wirzenius <l...@liw.fi> wrote: > >On the other hand, many computers now have an SSD drive, for speed, > >which is relatively small. Further, most users will likely need files in > >/usr/share/doc rarely, if ever, so not compressing things risks wasting > >a bunch of disk space for no particular benefit. > > How about making this configurable within dpkg, so that the people who > want their /usr/share/doc to be uncompressed can tell dpkg to do it > for them without breaking dpkg's databases?
If you mean doing that at unpack time, I only see disadvantages with this: it makes the files take more space on disk, it makes the unpack slower as it has to uncompress those files, and it makes dpkg more complicated. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110819205047.ga2...@gaara.hadrons.org
