Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My point is that if I choose to install a doc packages I intend to use > it frequently and would therefore like that it is user friendly rather > than that one has squeezed some few kilobytes out by gzipping files. If
Agreed. Particularly since the saving isn't sooo big at all. On my - of course, not representative - workstation an uncompressed doc/ tree takes only about a third more space (and this includes all the ChangeLogs, READMEs etc. shipped with each package). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# du -sh /usr/share/doc 839M /usr/share/doc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cp -ia /usr/share/doc /var/tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cd /var/tmp/doc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/doc# find . -type f -name \*.gz -print0 | xargs -0 gzip -d gzip: ./kernel-package/Rationale already exists; not overwritten gzip: ./kernel-package/HOWTO-Linux-2.6-Woody already exists; not overwritten gzip: ./gcc-4.1-base/.changelog.Debian.gz has 1 other link -- unchanged gzip: ./gcc-4.1-base/changelog.Debian.gz has 1 other link -- unchanged [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/doc# du -sh . 1,3G . [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/doc# regards Mario -- There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
