On Jan 10 14:16:47, grob...@gentoo.org wrote:
> On 09-01-2017 09:08:22 +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
> > The particular problem I am having is that http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ ,
> > my manpage formatter of choice, does deliberately not support bzip
> > (or any other outside decompre
On Jan 11 13:34:09, sven.e...@gmx.de wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2017, 13:36:15 CET schrieb Jan Stary:
> > > You arguing that 40MB is nothing on modern systems (which, by the way is
> > > not exactly true, talking about embedded ones).
> >
> > Can you gove
This is Gentoo 2.2 (4.4.6-gentoo x86_64).
The system manpages seem to be bzipped as in
/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.bz2
Why is that? Is there any benefit to compressing the manpages nowadays?
IMHO it only adds a layer of complexity, for very questionable benefit
(i.e. disk space): how much of the
On Jan 10 19:19:03, gen...@mva.name wrote:
> В письме от вторник, 10 января 2017 г. 13:08:14 +07 пользователь Jan Stary
> написал:
> > On Jan 10 19:04:47, gen...@mva.name wrote:
> > > > There is an option to support; the packages need to be reinstalled
> > &g
On Jan 10 12:54:21, h...@stare.cz wrote:
> Also, the uncompressed manpage will not get updated
> when the packages gets updated. I will have two copies,
> a stale *.1 and an up-to-date *.1.bz2.
And things like /usr/share/man/man1/sx.1.bz2
will not get unbzipped, because it's a symlink, now
On Jan 10 19:04:47, gen...@mva.name wrote:
> > There is an option to support; the packages need to be reinstalled
> > or there are untracked files; the manpage formatter needs to call
> > external unpackers. All this to save 40M. I honestly don't think
> > it's worth it.
>
> Why do you care about
On Jan 09 09:30:11, ike...@gentoo.org wrote:
> Hiya Jan,
>
> The following snippet from Ingo is correct:
>
> > So, you want to hear something constructive? Your best option is to
> > just decompress that stuff on your system. (Gentoo is famous for
> > its excessive configurability - maybe
> > This is Gentoo 2.2 (4.4.6-gentoo x86_64).
>
> That doesn't actually tell any Gentoo user anything about your system
> except a very specific few bits of data which do not relate at all to
> the rest of the subject matter of your e-mail.
I am not really familiar eith this system - what would
