On 10/10/16 02:41, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> Hi friends!
>
> Do the HTML and PDF versions of our man pages that we ship in every
> tarball provide any value to you?
>
> Removing them from the tarballs would take away between 30-35% of the
> compressed file size and thus produce much smaller release packages.
>
> A simple check right now:
>
> bz2 - from 4047215 to 2568070 bytes
> zip - from 7366802 to 5019690 bytes

Bandwidth savings alone are worth the removal.
You could always have a separate _docs.tar.gz file.

Also, the xz compression could really reduce things further.

Dennis

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