>>>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 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.
I cannot reproduce this number, but of course it will be different for every system. Here I have: 9.5 GB installed files in total 1.6 GB in /usr/share/doc That's some 17 %, _with_ PORTAGE_COMPRESS enabled. Ulrich
