Re: Pruning the tree (was Re: your mail)

Hans Lermen (lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de)
Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:42:01 +0200 (MET DST)


On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Marty Leisner wrote:

>
>
> I did a litte experiment:
> untarred the tree
> got rid of non-i386 architectures
> retarred/recompressed
>
> Saved less then .5 meg...not worth it...

Yes, you are right, the distribution should remain as it is
( also for other reasons ).

However, having a little script cleaning up the tree _after_ make config
(like I have it) make sense, because you then gain 5 Meg:

'du -s' on a full 2.0 tree: 23376
'du -s' on a i386-only tree: 18442

Hans
<lermen@fgan.de>