y are gzipped. I'm
only talking about the pure doc packages.
Thanks in advance
Preben Randhol
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On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:28:36 -0500
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wasn't there a discussion a month or so ago regarding whether PDF
> files should be gzipped or not?
Unfortunately I wasn't on the list then, but My opinion is that they
shouldn't
1. You don't save much space ad pdf is
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:52:26 +0900
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But, we have fast CPUs so it is not too bad. Under gnome, fileroller
> will open it for you from filer.
But I don't want to unzip a pdf to my home directory. This wasts space.
Last pdf I saw gzipped was only 6% smaller.
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:31:39 +0200
René van Bevern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hello,
>
> > 2. xpdf doesn't want to open gzipped pdfs by default which
> > makes this a pain in the **tt for people w
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:35:53 +0900
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For architecture: all *-doc packages, there is no technical and
> practical reason to gzip *.pdf file. I agree. packages are gziped so
> package size d nt change. We do it just because of policy and bcause
> helper scrip
Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 26/06/2006 (05:08) :
> On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 16:51 -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
>
> > > I have no idea how debhelper works. Are there anybody out there that
> > > can help with getting it to stop gzipping files in -doc?
> >
> > dh_compress already ha
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 25/06/2006 (12:17) :
> I think I gave wrong impression to you.
Yes :-)
I thought you meant the usual: OK I'll fix your problem if you provide
the solution :-)
> Most of PDF.GZ are under me and tetex-doc people. Once we find good
> technical solution, we m
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:21:10 +0200
Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think that a notable addition (by Olaf v.d.S. IIRC) was that it
> could be worthwhile to improve viewers. E.g. kghostview will
> correctly open .pdf.gz while gnome-gv will not. Similarly kdvi
> opens .dvi.gz. Altough
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:08:17 +0200
Rolf Kutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you think users with small machines shouldn't
> be able to install docs, too? It's just a one line
> script to gunzip all pdfs in /usr/share/doc.
I don't find this a good argument as it is equally a one line script to
bz
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:59:39 +0200
Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006, Preben Randhol wrote:
>
> > > Do you think users with small machines shouldn't be able to
> > > install docs, too? It's just a one line script to gunzip all
With the 2.6 kernel programs using OSS for sound are not working
anymore. Sound that is. One *may* use aoss, but then the user needs to
open a terminal and write:
aoss program-name
because launching from the menu it won't work. So I consider aoss only
as a temporary dirty hack before alsa takes o
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:30:45 +0100
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yet I've got several machines with limited disk space where I really
> *do* care if things are compressed. After all, disk space is *always*
> used up when it's in use and CPU is only used on the odd occasion when
> you
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:35:19 +0200
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:20:34PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:
> > With the 2.6 kernel programs using OSS for sound are not working
> > anymore. Sound that is. One *may* use aoss, but then the u
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