Nathan Coulson wrote:
> We added ZLIB=no to pciutils when they began compressing pci.ids by
> default,  (which broke hal).  As we no longer offer hal, is there any
> reason to not compress pci.ids?
>
> usbutils also uses --disable-zlib , same story
>
> (Been leaving that off of my builds for a couple years now,  but I
> don't build many of the packages that would be using the ids files).

There is no significant reason to compress or not compress.  You can 
save about 600K by compressing if that is important for you.  That's 
about .0006% of a 10G partition.

   -- Bruce

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