>>>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > If you don't explicitly need compression, don't do anything.
You mean if the user has requested compression with PORTAGE_COMPRESS, ignore it? What about FEATURES="nodoc", ignore it too? > And if you're trying to make a space-critical distribution, start > looking at the big things, not the 4% things. 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 %? Ulrich
