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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] size of iso dvds</H1>
    <B>Thierry Vignaud</B> 
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    <I>Tue Feb 14 19:36:59 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 14 February 2012 18:39, Florian Hubold &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">doktor5000 at arcor.de</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;<i> Somehow related, i just did some rpm size comparisons for thunderbird
</I>&gt;<i> -l10n packages, to see what can be gained if we switch them back to
</I>&gt;<i> uncompressing the (zipped) .xpi files and so let them profit from
</I>&gt;<i> rpm binary payload compression. It's not much for a single package,
</I>&gt;<i> but overall it's a reduction by 35%.
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So we save a little space from DVDs but we'll quite a lot more on the
installed systems...
Bad tradeoff IMHO...

&gt;<i> Maybe this is a viable solution for other packages too, which currently
</I>&gt;<i> carry files which are already compressed when building.
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That would only waste more space on installed systemdsif we
uncompress man pages, info pages &amp; the like too...
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