On Thu, 22.09.2005 at 00:46:11 -0400, Mikhail T. wrote: > Hello! > > How can I attract an interested comitter to my: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/79607 Changing the default format for manpages has serious bikeshed potential. While adding support for reading/writing bz2 compressed manpages is certainly useful, I doubt the benefit of switching to bzip2 compressed manpages. There are several points to consider: 1. I dont want to wait for my manpages to display, they have to be on screen instantanously. 2. "Desktops" and "Servers" have several GBs of space. No need to further squeeze the manpages (heck, I'd even consider not compressing them at all, but slight compression should even be faster than no compression at all) 3. Embedded devices are low on disk space, ok. But a) you dont want to install manpages to them. b) you certainly don't want to run bzip2 on these machines. Ulrich Spoerlein -- PGP Key ID: F0DB9F44 Encrypted mail welcome! Fingerprint: F1CE D062 0CA9 ADE3 349B 2FE8 980A C6B5 F0DB 9F44 Ok, which part of "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn." didn't you understand?
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