Le Jeudi 3 Avril 2003 19:34, G�tz Waschk a �crit :
> Am Donnerstag, 3. April 2003, 17:50:22 Uhr MET, schrieb Guillaume Rousse:
> > Ainsi parlait Austin :
> > > We've discussed this before.
> > > Bzip the png icons ==> more work, larger file size
> > > Don't bzip the icons ==> they don't show up in the CVS
> > > So the packager has an 'executive' decision to make every time.
> >
> > The CVS issue is just an upload script problem however, that should not
> > prevail over the more general file size issue. There should be a general
> > policy there, not an individual packager choice.
>
> I think this is not that important that it would require a policy.
> Both versions work fine apart from the CVS upload issue. There's a
> recommendation to bzip2 the sources, but it's not enforced, e.g. if
> the tar.gz version is smaller than the bzip2 version.
As rpm is compressed itself, I don't think using either uncompressed, gz or
bz2 compressed png doesn't change final rpm size much. I'd really prefer
constant behaviour there than an hypothetic minimal size gain.
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