From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LZoFC-0007Qw-6A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:21:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F66DE0450; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:21:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f205.google.com (mail-bw0-f205.google.com [209.85.218.205]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A8CE0450 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:21:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz1 with SMTP id 1so5688561bwz.10 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:21:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=CWMvqpiXFMFsMaXSAavZHMzyRAha/djN5KygAcnr+Zc=; b=k7E9CUacbgp73ufWB3eY5URqW8NzfKRhZ4kuZ13iPOvo8MFMuxRSrAxJ8BB+7nS2yu 0WWykBUH3z0I14blYT+rSX3BY6YkTeFZUsjzn3u4tfG3AWzdqZLGIpEVvlcuFhDDuubN oDB61l3D2CGFNXQjBQCSi1cBIQVClqopL7Ln8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=tWZtRD4eL5v2u3dS986LjJHCp6xBTMPmOe+gRy+a2vdTKSO/UHkSXTdk56BLLjC9Hg nU8nxSBKy9jPpe+iwMuHfBw60vK4Ht+tZ9JO5RPVMHjWFVL55uORRMhTQKVfaoNZH+j0 P4MZYG6WGOHrninDB7T+t/9yn9t8wK2ptF1vQ= Received: by 10.103.171.20 with SMTP id y20mr4661490muo.122.1234970507840; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:21:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowcone (92-235-187-79.cable.ubr18.sgyl.blueyonder.co.uk [92.235.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x26sm21863636ugc.49.2009.02.18.07.21.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:21:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:21:37 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] prepalldocs is now banned Message-ID: <20090218152137.221889fe@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <18844.9899.336441.721100@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <20090213213017.GA3452@dodo.hsd1.nj.comcast.net> <200902172326.19358.bangert@gentoo.org> <9d2010770902171610u7839ac9bsedca72fa74b70d29@mail.gmail.com> <20090218001806.1a19df6b@snowcone> <20090218083958.01f2111f@gentoo.org> <20090218140646.10282a5b@snowcone> <18844.9899.336441.721100@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/MnKuey3M2.Ciaj17kTVV8Uh"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 8612134a-86bd-406b-a007-67bfd4ade42a X-Archives-Hash: daa0e48cef5e620e266583799f716ebc --Sig_/MnKuey3M2.Ciaj17kTVV8Uh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:18:03 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > If you don't explicitly need compression, don't do anything. >=20 > You mean if the user has requested compression with PORTAGE_COMPRESS, > ignore it? Yup. It's a misfeature. You can see this by considering the proportion of ebuilds that honour it... > What about FEATURES=3D"nodoc", ignore it too? FEATURES is purely a Portage internal, so ebuilds shouldn't be messing with it. > > And if you're trying to make a space-critical distribution, start > > looking at the big things, not the 4% things. >=20 > Typical documentation consists of text files, so I would expect to > save of the order of 50 % by compressing them. How did you obtain > above number of 4 %? The proportion of ebuild-managed content in /usr/share/doc (with USE=3Ddoc, so it's a massive overestimate for space-relevant systems) vs elsewhere. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/MnKuey3M2.Ciaj17kTVV8Uh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmcJ4YACgkQ96zL6DUtXhFmOwCgi/PE+VwSk1OoqCZW7QaHGDOO OIUAnimVXdEhYWYaz6oJ/4ExnVUz8Z5x =/SeV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/MnKuey3M2.Ciaj17kTVV8Uh--