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[Ethan Blanton]

Allan Clark spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > (I don't know about you guys, but I have a ton of icons in .gaim/icons
> > which I'm pretty sure aren't being used, many of which are
> > byte-for-byte identical.)
> 
> Is it possible to reduce that from happening by being aware of the
> checksum of an icon?  Some image formats have signatures.

This has been discussed quite a few times over the past few years, and
general consensus is that storing icons is probably best handled by
content-based signature addressing (e.g., a hash of the file itself).

Ethan

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