Re: [proposal] remove the requirement to compress documentation
Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:
> - Compressing documentation files incurs an additional step on the user
> who wants to read said documentation. Yes, there is zless and zmore.
> However, there is no ziceweasel, zpdf-reader[2] or zgv. Even if such
> tools do exist, we would still require that users either know these
> tools exist and how to get them, or to decompress files before reading
> them.
Not that it's an argument against your more general proposal, but it's
worth noting that running xpdf on a compressed PDF file just works.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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