On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:03:24AM -0800, Steve G wrote: > Hi, > > With the discussion about trimming specfile changelogs to save space and improve > downloads...why not go one step further? Mandrake has been using bzip2 for a > while and it works just as well and files are significantly smaller. The > conversion could be done in several steps: > > 1) man pages - less already handles bzipped man pages > 2) info pages - I submited patch in bz #128637 to try to get it working > 3) tar > 4) rpms - I'm sure the patch is in Mandrake's version If the rpm contains compressed man pages/info pages/whatever overall compression ratio (package size) will be _worse_. Nothing should be compressed _inside_ the rpm. -- pozsy
