Bug#664794: lintian: should we compress some collections (file-info and index)?
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> I have been considering if it would be a good idea to (conditionally?)
> compress certain collection files. In some cases they are actually
> rather large and I suspect compression will generally be good in such
> cases[1]. Admittedly, there are also cases where it gives little to no
> size reduction.
Compressing some stuff is not a bad idea. The indices and file-info
collections seem like the most obvious targets. People doing greps can
switch to zgreps.
I would prefer to never conditionally compress anything; either always
compress it or never compress it. That way, the file names and access
method are always consistent.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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