Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> writes:
That's not a problem with symlinks,
but a problem with manpage compression.
Why would anyone compress manpages?
How much space does that save overall?
[snip example]
Tens of megabytes saved, in the whole system.
Absoultely not worth the hassle.
i personally agree, but here's a discussion i opened on the Gentoo
bug tracker about the compression of man pages in the context of
using mandoc rather than man-db:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/836367
in which i linked to this old thread on mandoc-discuss:
https://marc.info/?l=mandoc-discuss&m=160666427213578&w=2
and in particular Ingo's comment:
https://marc.info/?l=mandoc-discuss&m=160668087317110&w=2
(This is all a result of my stubborn insistence on using mandoc on
Gentoo. :-) )
Alexis.
