[Nix-dev] Re: Do we compress man and info files yet?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>
writes:

> Marc Weber wrote:
>
>> Many distros do. Maybe we should start doing this as well.
>
> Yes.  This could easily be done in the fixupPhase of the generic builder.

And I think Debian, for instance, makes sure the compressed version is
smaller than the original, or keeps the original one.

Thanks,
Ludovic.