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 > > > 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 calling external unpacker, > > but do not care about saving 40MB? > > Because not having to call an external unpacker > allows for the manpage formatter to be simple; > whereas saving 40M of space is of no concern.
You arguing that 40MB is nothing on modern systems (which, by the way is not exactly true, talking about embedded ones). So, I guess, it means, that you have modern powerfull hardware, which is pretty fine with some overheads. Then why do you need "simple" manpage formatter? Why don't use all of that complicated ones (man-db, vim's Man.vim, whatever) instead? P.S.: And actually, why calling external unpacker is so complicated? Almost any programming language I know, has functions identical to C's system()... P.P.S: Do you fully understand, that you asking to change "defaults", that will affect tons of users (which are happy with current "defaults") because yours only own local problems (not having root access on the system)?
