On 04/16/2016 05:30 PM, Alexander Miller wrote: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 00:50:58 -0400 > Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> imo, we should just drop all compression support. distros already >> handle this properly and pick whatever they want/need. > > For distros this is useless, of course. I've never used it either. > But I guess there are still people installing stuff from sources > without using a package manager, and they might find it convenient. > >> if no one >> is using this code, then it's just sucking up space. > > I'm not concerned about the space, but code needs to be maintained. > IMO, as long as it works, we can keep it; if it has issues we'd > better remove it. > > We can drop compression support or do it right - I'm fine with > either option. We shouldn't keep the status quo, though. I'm inclined to say drop it. Would you mind putting together a patch, Alex? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
