Re: Suggestion to gzip the Elisp source files
Sven Joachim <sven_joachim@web.de> writes:
> In GNU Emacs 22, Auto Compression mode is enabled by default. Therefore
> and because of the growing number of packages coming with Emacs, it
> makes sense to compress the Elisp source in the emacs<version>-el
> package, saving probably some 25-30 Megabytes of disk space. Also, in
> a way these files are documentation, and that is usually compressed in
> Debian.
>
> The only drawback is that Emacs won't find the Elisp source files if
> the user disables auto-compression-mode; but I think few people will
> want to do that.
Looks like an exacerbation of the existing Debian policy to recklessly
break things like byte-recompile-directory.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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