Hi guys, I made a small experiment to test whether using xz to compress docs is a viable idea. Here is my repo with the results from my Debian machine:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/tomasz/changelog.git I have around 5000 packages, but the stats should be "percentage-wise representative". The uncompressed docs take ~ 1.5GB of space, gz'ed ~ 400MB (26.6%) and xz'ed ~ 330MB (21.7%, see ipython notebook). You can use main.py to get similar stats on your own Debian. I'm thinking that having completely uncompressed docs is wasting way too much space. On the other side of the spectrum, I wouldn't go for xz, since gz is probably better supported by software (as Bill mentioned) and the gain is only 70MB for a rather large installation. What do you think? Tomasz
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