* Adam Williamson:
On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 07:57 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Adam Williamson:
>
> > 1. /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive , from glibc-all-langpacks - this is
> > 224M uncompressed. A quick test just compressing the file with xz on my
> > system shows it compresses to around 11M, though, so that's probably
> > all it adds up to after compression (the image is an xz-compressed
> > squashfs)
>
> Isn't the compression block-based? I think it would be interesting to
> measure the image size with the file removed.
I'll try it tomorrow, it's not too hard.
Have you posted the outcome of the experiment somewhere?
Thanks,
Florian