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Re: gzipped charmap installation
- To: haible at ilog dot fr
- Subject: Re: gzipped charmap installation
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 14:48:02 -0700
- CC: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <14807.12909.174132.857121@honolulu.ilog.fr>
> From: Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>
> Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 14:47:41 +0200 (CEST)
> Since the charmaps are only ever used by "localedef" and "locale -m", i.e.
> very rarely, here is a patch to install them in gzipped format. (Same as
> what is done with man pages, info pages, X11 PCF fonts, etc.) The total
> size then decreases to
>
> glibc-2.1.94 with gzip 2352 KB
> glibc-2.1.94 with bzip2 1812 KB
... so why not use bzip2 by default?
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>