On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 06:16:22PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > While I can appreciate the problem of running out of disc space, 3.5 > MB is only 0.23 % of 1.5 GB. If that little bit is a problem, and > you are trying to squeeze extra space out of your file system 0.23 % > at a time, you are not spending your time wisely.
I have 2100 packages installed on my system. If all of them decided 3.5MB of savings wasn't worthwhile, that's over 7GB of extra data. In isolation, 3.5MB isn't but in total it can be an appreciable difference. That being said, we stopped compressing the help files in Debian's packages back in 2004 since, at the time, :helpgrep didn't work with compressed help files. I'm not sure whether that's still the case. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <james...@jamessan.com> -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
