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Subject: Re: trying to use xz on manuals.
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On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:50:44 -0800
Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> wrote:
> >> Some time ago I do similar tests. Changing compression for base man's to bz2 or xz doesn't make much sense.
> > Oh, agreed.  The issue with small files is that they will always take up at least one sector [*]; different compression routines don't gain any benefit if they don't change the number of sectors needed to store the file.
> > More than half of the manpages end up as 1K .gz catman files as it is; ~90% are 2K or smaller.
> It might make sense if XZ decompression were significantly
> faster than GZip decompression.  (Especially since man pages
> are decompressed much more often than they are compressed.)

	Oh, that's good!
	But this setting causes pkg-plist break of ports.
	Maybe, some ports chase bsd.own.mk (COMPRESS_CMD, COMPRESS_EXT),
	but it assumed that MANEXT is .gz:-(.

	Thank you.

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Norikatsu Shigemura <nork@FreeBSD.org>