Public bug reported:
/usr/share/doc is stripped down to only the copyright files and yet...
$ du -sh /usr/share/doc
19M /usr/share/doc
Compressing even just the copyrights gives an appreciable gain:
$ cp -a /usr/share/doc /tmp/foo
$ find /tmp/foo/ -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \; && du -sh /tmp/foo
5.5M /tmp/foo
A saving of 13+ Meg!
However, for this to be useful, the software licenses view would need to
be able to read gzip'ed files.
= Performance =
Currently, reading a *single* copyright from the software licenses
screen is slow (~1-2 seconds to read what are tiny (<2k) files).
This seems like an issue that needs work before we can consider reading
.gz files.
What would be rather neat is to augment the existing plain alphabetical
list of software packages with icons denoting the licenses. This would
allow the user to get a quick visual summary without necessarily having
to click on each and every package to see what their particular licences
are.
If implemented, it would make sense to generate a map of "package =>
licenses" at livecd-rootfs build-time. This should be
Bonus points to allow the list to be sorted by licence type :-)
** Affects: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
allow about->"software licenses" to read gzip'd files to reclaim some
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