Fedora 19 Final blocker status: fix and karma requests

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Jun 24 00:30:59 UTC 2013


On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 07:25:50PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >On my F19 desktop, I have 530MB under /usr/share/locale; this compresses
> >down to 94MB with xz -- 67MB with xz -9. And we're xz-ing the livecd and RPM
> >payloads, right?
> The live images get compressed at the end, so looking at the
> potential savings you want to think about how compressible it is.
> Savings from reducing things that compress well are not going to be
> as good as that from data that is already compressed when installed.

Yes, sorry, that was supposed to be my point. The translations are obviously
a big chunk of the uncompressed usage, but _do_ compress well.

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Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>


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