Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using .xz for doc/man/info compression

[viv...@gmail.com]

On 05/13/14 13:01, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> f we are trying to consider a majority of users (and thus to
> select reasonable defaults), from disk usage + decompression
> overhead point of view it will be the best to store compressed files
> if they are at least one filesystem block smaller than original
> file. FS block size may be extracted runtime for any man or doc, or
> alike directory used, so this is doable. But this approach may
> overcomplicate implementation.
The filesystem on which the files will end is totally unknown to
portage, since it could be a different machine using binpkg