Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gconf2
On my system there are 65 MB of files in /var/lib/gconf2/defaults. The
majority of that space consists of whitespace indentation of the xml
files. Simply replacing every sequence of 8 space characters with a
hard tab character cuts this size in half. Removing all leading
whitespace completely ( humans aren't really supposed to look at these
files anyhow, so who cares if they are nicely indented? ) saves even
more space.
What's more, these files appear to contain schema descriptions in every
possible language, when I only use English. Not only that but all this
data appears to be compiled from files in /usr/share/gconf/schemas,
causing duplication of the data.
Possible fixes include:
1) Using hard tab characters instead of 8 spaces for indentation
2) Eliminating the indentation completely
3) Eliminating the extra languges
4) Keeping /var/lib/gconf2/defaults/* in a .tar.bz2 that can be decompressed
on the fly ( my 65 MB compressed down to ~3.8 MB )
5) Reading the files in /usr/share/gconf/schemas directly instead of copying
the information to /var/lib/gconf2/defaults
6) Removing the files in /usr/share/gconf/schemas once it has been merged into
/var/lib/gconf2/defaults
** Affects: gconf2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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gconf wastes a lot of space on defaults schemas files
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306409
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