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Re: stop shipping PDF and HTML versions in tarballs?

From: dev_user <dev_at_cor0.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:53:32 -0400

On 10/10/16 02:41, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> Hi friends!
>
> Do the HTML and PDF versions of our man pages that we ship in every
> tarball provide any value to you?
>
> Removing them from the tarballs would take away between 30-35% of the
> compressed file size and thus produce much smaller release packages.
>
> A simple check right now:
>
> bz2 - from 4047215 to 2568070 bytes
> zip - from 7366802 to 5019690 bytes
>
> I just have the feeling that very few users actually care for these
> versions of the docs so we're just artifically bloat the package to very
> little gain.

They are not required in the tarball. Also, the xz compression would be
even smaller. Try this :

     xz -9ekv foo

Dennis

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