On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:06:46 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:39:58 +0100 > Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Then, for the nth time, what would be the good solution? > > If you explicitly need compression, do it by hand, since there aren't > any mechanisms for guaranteed compression anyway. Yes of course. > If you don't explicitly need compression, don't do anything. ... and mark relevant stuff as "ok to be compressed with whatever suits you best"... sounds familiar? :) > And if you're trying to make a space-critical distribution, start > looking at the big things, not the 4% things. When I do something space critical I exclude /usr/share/doc and a couple of others... that doesn't mean I do like wasting space on something not space critical when compression algorithms exist. Alexis.
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