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Re: Behaviour of .so differs between mandoc and groff
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Jan Stary |
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Re: Behaviour of .so differs between mandoc and groff |
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Thu, 4 May 2023 08:18:51 +0200 |
> > The problem with symlinks is that they need to be updated to match
> > manpage compression. `.so` works with any compression used for the
> > manpage.
That's not a problem with symlinks,
but a problem with manpage compression.
Why would anyone compress manpages?
How much space does that save overall?
OpenBSD:
43.6M /usr/share/man/
36.6M /usr/local/man/
17.4M /tmp/man.tar.gz
macOS:
133M /Library/Developer//CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX13.3.sdk/usr/share/man
25M /usr/share/man/
57M /tmp/man.tar.gz
Tens of megabytes saved, in the whole system.
Absoultely not worth the hassle.