Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression
* Lars Wirzenius (liw@liw.fi) [110815 23:27]:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:04:51PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote:
> > * Lars Wirzenius [2011-08-15 18:33 +0100]:
> > > raw gz xz
> > > 584 163 134 file sizes (MiB)
> > > 0 421 450 savings compared to raw (MiB)
> > > -421 0 29 savings compared to current gz (MiB)
> In other words, it's 130 MiB against xz's 134 MiB. I'll leave it to
> others to decide if it's a significatn difference.
bzip2 is definitly a more conservative choice than xz. If it's
smaller, than it's superior to xz.
Andi
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