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From: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com>
To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
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Subject: Re: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ?
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Heya Peter,

> > > The other possibility of supporting compressed plist files (apart from
> > > gzip) is some sort of custom ASCII tokenisation (i.e. replace all
> > > instances of "share/doc/foo/bar/" with "A" and list this substitution
> > > at the top of the plist). This method would enable the size of plist files
> > > to be reduced without worrying about repository bloat. Comments?
> > 
> > This sounds like a fairly good idea. If we could use `standard' tools for this
> > then that would be the best solution, IMO.
> 
> Errr.. this is already done, you know :)  Well, not a single character,
> more like 5 chars, but you can use PLIST_SUB for this, and do something
> like:

Uh, now that you mention it, I'm already using that :) But I thought George
was referring to a more advanced system. But reading his mail again he
probably wasn't.

Kind regards,


/Ernst

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