Re: improving cm-super package

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

>> One final question: What do you think of my other idea, to blank the archive 
>> to save disk space, e.g. by
>> :> cm-super.t1c
>> after installation?
>
> Good idea, I will think about it. Currently I don't use it after initial
> installation, so it might be a good idea to empty it.
>
> Other opinions?

I think it would be nice to be able to get rid of the stuff.  However,
is currently installed by dpkg, and the md5sum is recorded in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/cm-super.md5sums.  I don't think that it's a good
idea to change such a file - maybe it's even forbidden by policy.  I
must admit that I don't have an idea how to avoid that problem.

Compressing with bzip2 gets down its size from 57 Mbyte to 24 MByte,
that's at least some difference - but it takes a while...

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)