On 14 February 2012 18:39, Florian Hubold <[email protected]> wrote: > Somehow related, i just did some rpm size comparisons for thunderbird > -l10n packages, to see what can be gained if we switch them back to > uncompressing the (zipped) .xpi files and so let them profit from > rpm binary payload compression. It's not much for a single package, > but overall it's a reduction by 35%.
So we save a little space from DVDs but we'll quite a lot more on the installed systems... Bad tradeoff IMHO... > Maybe this is a viable solution for other packages too, which currently > carry files which are already compressed when building. That would only waste more space on installed systemdsif we uncompress man pages, info pages & the like too...
