On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM Alexander Sosedkin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote: > > This has been percolating in my mind for a little while now, but we've > > been going through and switching things to zstd across the board (most > > recently initramfs, but we did btrfs compression, zram, and even rpm > > previously), and I wonder if we want to also switch man and info pages > > from gzip to zstd. > > > > This has already been done at least once with OpenMandriva, so I know > > it is possible with an RPM distribution in a reasonable fashion. > > > > At least man-db has support for zstd compression and just needs to be > > told to prefer it at build time, and OpenMandriva has a patch for > > texinfo[1]. If we want to do it, it's not hard to accomplish > > > > Is there a compelling reason that we shouldn't consider migrating to > > zstd in an upcoming Fedora release? > > > > > > [1]: > > https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/texinfo/blob/master/texinfo-6.7-zstd-compression.patch > > If btrfs compression is already in place by default, what's the > benefit of manpages compression then? >
Aside from being beneficial on non-Btrfs systems (which also includes our toolbox container and live/install media) with slightly better compression ratios, not much. It'll speed up stuff since zstd is a lot faster than gzip, though. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
