On 09/19/2010 04:43 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > many man pages exist merely as a redirect to another man page: > $ xzcat /usr/share/man/man1/zcat.1.xz > .so man1/gzip.1 > > compressing these tiny (always?) results in a larger file. that means we > arent saving space, and we're adding overhead at runtime. > > two options which we can do transparently: > - rewrite the .so man pages into symlinks > - omit them from compression > > the latter is pretty easy (see below). any preferences on which route to take > though as the former shouldnt be too hard either ...
It feels like an insignificant optimization to me, but I don't feel strongly either way. -- Thanks, Zac
