On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 05:09:57PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:32:00AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:33:34PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote: > > > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > > This is just an announcement that I'm going to add bzip2(1) > > > > support to man(1) and makewhatis(1) (catman(1) already has > > > > it), and then switch the default compression method from > > > > gzip(1) to bzip2(1), for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs. > > > > (The latest 4.5 texinfo supports bzip2.) > > > > > > I don't mean to sound rude, but what is the justification for this? > > > > > Sorry to be sounding obvious, but what other use other than > > better compression one should expect from a compression tool? > > Here are the total compressed sizes for all the section 1 manual pages in > src/usr.bin: > compress: 670776 bytes, 1.33 * gzip size > gzip: 504723 bytes, 1.00 * gzip size > gzip -9: 504441 bytes, 1.00 * gzip size > bzip2: 494974 bytes, 0.98 * gzip size > bzip2 -9: 494974 bytes, 0.98 * gzip size > > It does not look like bzip2 compresses the manual pages well enough to bother > replacing gzip, especially considering the relative speeds of the two and the > backwards compatibility issues. > Please take into consideration Groff documents under /usr/share/doc and Texinfo documents under /usr/share/info too. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru_at_sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age
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