Re: why aren't man pages compressed?
Hi All,
The compression of man pages is a general Debian issue not a man
package isssue.
The current setup for man (man_db) will read compress man pages as
well as uncompressed ones. If a package contains compressed nroff man
pages they will be found and displayed as normal.
Currently all catman pages produced will be compressed.
When I gzip (-9) a /usr/man dir I observe:
bash# ls
X11R6 dict include local sbin tmp
adm doc info man spool
bin games lib man.gzipped src
bash# du -sk man
5696 man
bash# du -sk man.gzipped
2985 man.gzipped
Or more accurately:
bash# ls -l man/*/* | awk 'BEGIN {sum=0};{sum+=$5}; END {print sum}'
5006552
bash# ls -l man.gzipped/*/* | awk 'BEGIN {sum=0};{sum+=$5}; END {print sum}'
2224172
So we dont save much space - mainly I suspect, because man pages are
generally short.
alvar
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