On 12 May 2014 21:35, Tom Wijsman <[email protected]> wrote:

> What about putting multiple doc / man / info files in a single .xz file
> for each package?
>


How would one use them if they're installed as a single .xz file per
package?

Is there a trick that exists to allow this to even work for "man man" ?

I'm guessing you *could* have an extension wrapper that handles a symlink
to such a file to extract the desired content, but that seems messy.

( ie: less /path/to/bar.polyxz  => polyxz /path/to/bar.polyxz  => polyxz
reads symlink target, decodes the .xz file and returns "bar" from it based
on the symlink source name )

Though I'd imagine that would mitigate the marginal savings made by
unifying them as a single file by needing extra file system allocations to
house the symlinks.

-- 
Kent

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