Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files

[Tom Lord]

  > Because I'm not using Arch for software development: I have to version
  > control live-CDs, that is to say complete workspaces. Managing only
  > source files would imply complete compilation of a system from the
  > kernel to the Open Office suite passing by all modules, desktop
  > environment, web browser and all other software needed by users: this
  > would be anything else than a waste of time

You are simply wrong (about "waste").  You appear to not understand
the nature of the raw materials you are working with.

Sadly, you are very far from being alone in this mistake.

-t