Dan Nicholson wrote: > 1. In addition to being in the book, I'd like if we could make > compressdoc a download on anduin. I like that you can look at the > script online, but it is a PITA to copy and paste.
Justin can put it in the main repository and it will bet mirrored to anduin. We can then reference that in the book. We can also put it in an anduin only location so we can update it without going through Justin. You decide. Either way is ok with me. > 2. I've also generated a reverse patch in case anyone wants to keep > using compressdoc with Man. I'd like to put it in the patches repo > and place a link on the page with explanation about it's use. Do > you think it's worth the effort? Actually, I don't. Checking my system, I have 54M usage in /usr/share/man and I don't compress man pages. Compare to 6.7G in /usr src. I needed a small drive the other day and at a computer show the smalled *used* drive I could find was 20G. Compressing docs also uses CPU when decompressing, but that is probably negligible for todays GHz systems. Compressing man pages was for the days when disk space was expensive. Today, I don't think its worth the effort. What we have in the book now is mainly of historical value. I'm not suggesting we remove it, but we shouldn't be spending a lot of time on it either. -- Bruce P.S. I just thought of a reason for using compressed man pages: Putting a system on a CD (not DVD) or small flash drive. In that case, the compression is useful, but we still don't need to spend a lot of time on it. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
