From 4591c02ea934313638629b33ea47a148a1c38b53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:04:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Mention zlib as an optional dependency. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Mention zlib. (Invoking guix publish): Fix typo. --- doc/guix.texi | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 6e8fb483f2..1c4d57c811 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -546,6 +546,10 @@ Installing allow you to use the @command{guix import pypi} command (@pxref{Invoking guix import}). It is of interest primarily for developers and not for casual users. + +@item +When @url{http://zlib.net, zlib} is available, @command{guix publish} +can compress build byproducts (@pxref{Invoking guix publish}). @end itemize Unless @code{--disable-daemon} was passed to @command{configure}, the @@ -5651,7 +5655,7 @@ disable compression. The range 1 to 9 corresponds to different gzip compression levels: 1 is the fastest, and 9 is the best (CPU-intensive). The default is 3. -Note compression occurs on the fly and the compressed streams are not +Compression occurs on the fly and the compressed streams are not cached. Thus, to reduce load on the machine that runs @command{guix publish}, it may be a good idea to choose a low compression level, or to run @command{guix publish} behind a caching proxy.