On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 04:03:57PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 08:30:24PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > > It's worth mentioning that man-db has had xz support since March last year > > (upstream). This is available in testing. > > Although I'd also like to mention that I expect that it would take > rather longer for mandb to process /usr/share/man if all of the manual > pages there were xz-compressed rather than gzipped, as it would have to > exec an external command for every page rather than using a library. I > support xz-compressed pages because you sent me a reasonable patch and > it might occasionally help somebody, but I don't recommend it for global > use in Debian. Since liblzmaX exists, would it be a simple matter of using it in order to make mandb handle such compressed man pages without having to fork? regards, iustin
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