From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 33880@debbugs.gnu.org, Alex <agrambot@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#33880: [PATCH] Compress past NEWS files during installation
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 22:02:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m35zow2hpn.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1gy8tvk.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Sat, 16 Mar 2019 21:08:31 +0100")
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
> Alex <agrambot@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Alex,
>
>>>> If you view them in Emacs, then `auto-compression-mode' decompresses
>>>> the files on the fly.
>>>
>>> I usually grep them outside Emacs.
>>
>> Any chance you have zgrep on your system?
>
> I believe we could find a solution for all these problems. But I still
> don't understand why we should.
>
> Maybe you said it already, and I didn't care enough: could you pls say,
> what is the advantage of compressed NEWS files, that we must do this.
The space gain here was quite small, and there are drawbacks to
compressing the NEWS files, and nobody seemed really enthusiastic about
it, so I think the decision is not to do this, and I'm closing this bug
report.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-23 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-26 19:49 bug#33880: [PATCH] Compress past NEWS files during installation agrambot
2019-03-14 14:57 ` Alex
2019-03-14 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-14 15:43 ` Alex
2019-03-14 15:54 ` Michael Albinus
2019-03-14 16:23 ` Alex
2019-03-14 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-14 21:33 ` Alex
2019-03-14 22:00 ` Glenn Morris
2019-03-15 4:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-16 18:28 ` Alex
2019-03-16 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-16 20:08 ` Michael Albinus
2019-06-23 20:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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