Re: [PATCH 0/7] Improve support for compressed man pages

[Mike Frysinger <vapier-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

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On 16 Apr 2016 02:25, Alexander Miller wrote:
> when I looked at the Makefile I noticed it has incomplete compression
> support. Most notably the screen and uninstall targets didn't support
> switching to a different compression type. More precisely, uninstall
> supported only switching from gz or bz2 (but not xz) to uncompressed.
> The screen target had no explicit compression support and when it
> worked for compressed files it was pure luck.
> The patches 2 and 3 provide new recipes for both targets that can
> handle any combination of the supported compression types. Any file,
> installed or source, may be uncompressed or compressed with any of
> gz, bz2, or xz. Whether you compress before or after screen and uninstall
> doesn't matter any more.

imo, we should just drop all compression support.  distros already
handle this properly and pick whatever they want/need.  if no one
is using this code, then it's just sucking up space.
-mike

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