On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:01:04 +0100 Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > If you really, genuinely think you have a case for compression of > > docs, backed up with statistics showing that it's a relevant change, > > I fail to see why you need statistics for something that is clearly a > waste of space, but this could be a start: > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_9018a9f64cd32ba85494887ffe3edf78.xml
Because if you look at the statistics, it's pretty obvious that it's a stupid idea. If you've got USE=doc, somewhere around 4% of managed files are in /usr/share/doc, and once you take inode sizes into account, you can knock that down to about 3% -- and this is for people who are already turning on a use flag that wouldn't be on on space-relevant systems. > > then you should write a proposal for future EAPIs for handling it, > > I don't understand why something that has been there for ages has to > die. For what I've seen, the major (and only) problem with prepalldocs > is its definition and I'm sure we can find one that everybody will > agree with. Because killing it is better than keeping it. It's solving an irrelevant problem the wrong way. > > and you should do it in such a way that it works automatically for > > all ebuilds, without any developer intervention (but providing some > > way for ebuilds to disable it where necessary). > > This is probably a good start: > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_eb1f7952eb2f0fe725bde331a4d9ae30.xml Can you demonstrate that it's even remotely useful? -- Ciaran McCreesh
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