On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 5:36 AM Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Didier Roche [2015-08-12 12:29 +0200]:
> > Le 12/08/2015 12:15, Martin Pitt a écrit :
> > >Sebastien Bacher [2015-08-12 12:03 +0200]:
> > >>Did anyone measure what difference with/without the png optimizer would
> > >>make on the iso/standard install? Without numbers we can't really
> decide
> > >>on the cost/benefit...
> > >Back on natty it was ~ 5.5 MB (compressed size) gain with compressing
> > >PNGs and 7 MB with compressing SVGs.
> > >
> > >
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/performance-desktop-n-install-footprint
> > >
> > >There is no reason to believe that the numbers would be dramatically
> > >different these days, i. e. you can expect a 10 to 15 MB gain on a
> > >desktop ISO from this.
> > >
> > >Martin
> >
> > Is that only iso/image size (so recompressed in the squashfs) or the
> gain of
> > an ubuntu install itself, on disk?
>
> As I said, "compressed size", i. e. squashfs/deb difference. PNGs
> are already compressed so don't make much difference on an install;
> SVGs will get quite a bit bigger uncompressed (but I don't have any
> numbers).
>
> Martin
>
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>
>
>
On the worst offenders, what about working with upstream to get the png
optimizations submitted and accepted?  When this happens set up an
environment variable in debian/rules to indicate to skip optimization as
it's not necessary.
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