Re: Bloat for bloat's sake

["Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg%crufty.net@localhost>]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 10:52:55 +0100, David Brownlee writes:
>Even stripping it down to field 1 & 2 and the first part of the comment,
>
>fs-qos             41111/tcp    # Foursticks QoS Protocol

replacing spaces with single TAB woulld likely help.
Yes just that reduces it from 3.4M to 1.4M
not as readable though, using multiple TABs would help with the
readability while still saving considerable size.


>But... there are just too many lines - I'd be happy to see it drop to
>fields 1 & 2 plus a link to
>https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port
>-numbers.xhtml
>in the top comments, or even to something very slim such as
>Debian/Ubuntu

Or even have the full file somehere else for reference, and just a
useful selection in /etc/services.