My suggestion of comment #2 is now implemented. I have mentored Vitor
Baptista in the Google Summer of Code 2010 exactly for this. He finished
it today and I applied it to the openprinting-ppds and openprinting-
ppds-extra packages in Maverick, saving near 30 MB in an installed
system. I will do
Great. Thank Vitor and Till for your effort.
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Maybe a driver cache would avoid cups to decompress each time.
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Mike from Cups team replied to my request that LZMA as a format has
also not been standardized like GZIP/Flate, so we'd want to make sure
that issue is covered before we adopt it.
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** Changed in: foomatic-db (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
** Changed in: foomatic-db (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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First, this is a feature request and therefore I have marked it
Wishlist. As this feature request is not about the packaging and
installation of foomatic-db but about its core functionality I recommend
to report this upstream, in this case on
http://buga.linuxfoundation.org/, for the product
Thanks for your feedback.
I posted a feature request for lzma compression to the cups project:
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3369
For the PPD generator solution, I think that it is a kind of file system
implementation with less performance since the PPD generator would have
to read the whole tar
