On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:36:11 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:28:46 +0100 > Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > 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? :) > > No. That's entirely the wrong approach, I would call it an "unperfect yet useful approach" that unfortunately we've been using for eapi 0-2. > because it relies upon every > ebuild having support for it, and most don't. That's why it needs to be improved. > The right approach, if > you can demonstrate that there's a genuine benefit to compressing > documentation, is to make a proposal for a future EAPI for compression > by default for certain directories, with an override available for > ebuilds that need specific behaviour. And I agree this is the right solution but yet unimplemented... > > > 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. > > If you care about space, focus on something relevant. [...] You got me wrong there it seems: I do not care about space, however I do care about useless waste of space. Alexis.
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