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Re: Individual compression vs. tar.gz (was: Bug#4834: magicfilter's examples should be archived individually)



Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> writes:

> > (david@eos) /tmp/filters$ls -l /usr/doc/magicfilter/examples/filters/filters.tar.gz ; mkdir filters; cd filters; tar xvzf /usr/doc/magicfilter/examples/filters/filters.tar.gz; du
> 
> How big would they be if you then gzip each one?  Probably not too
> much bigger than the original.

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         6570 Apr 19  1997 /usr/doc/examples/magicfilter/filters/filters.tar.gz

Untared and compressed individually: 
$ du
100     .


Installed-Size: 50

So the resulting magicfilter package will three times as large as the
current.

In absolute numbers: we could tolerate the additional 100 KB, but this
is no strong opinion.

	Sven
-- 
Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>
http://www.sax.de/~sr1/


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