[Rule-list] Is in the fly compression needed?

[Marco Fioretti]

Chris,

the problem I see with compressing everything by default is that it
would slow down both install and normal operation too much on the kind
of processors and RAM settings likely to run RULE.

If one runs RULE, often will also have little files needs (small
number of small files), right?

What do you think? Does a way to provide a choice to always do this or
not at install time exists?

	Ciao,
		Marco Fioretti

----- Forwarded message from chris clark <clarkcd at myrealbox.com> -----

On the issue of minimal disk space:
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/mini/Saving-Space.html#toc3
suggests that stripping binaries, compressing executables with upx (http://upx.sourceforge.net/), and
gzipping other files, using zlibc to transparently uncompress when needed.


Couldn't this sort of thing be implemented with the $package.post.sh functionality to provide more
room during installs on marginal machines?


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