From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Improve support for compressed man pages Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 00:50:58 -0400 Message-ID: <20160416045058.GS6588@vapier.lan> References: <20160416022503.1df762cb.alex.miller@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KKauK+tA+COOvO64" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160416022503.1df762cb.alex.miller-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Alexander Miller Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org --KKauK+tA+COOvO64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline 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 --KKauK+tA+COOvO64 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXEcSyAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBhu4P/3aeLt7lwKW4gRKKpH8NnpCQ WWzoiZ1wyMQr18ud7g1voYBoDg/MNlgYIHf9VY6SF85apbcnIjTccLNhZmZeJ9Vk bLZrEeeuDQ5llctbPL86x2NcnxAMOt4/kAwqVNkrWECJdPpSPKzLJjYNNGIEHTo7 82mR29SQjSDZPgXQ6K4aRVsWjrzHv7Bq5cgdDGnK3mZ0lEcn/Ub2C44gJD6PU3iE +QrzqPAH6GE4b6rlCN9tUWxTszma2mcwLEqy63UU0hP+s3/2dPNv7/TUE2zUJrfn hzQD7tWII3a+rgbt5dH48p8IAUdXn/QM8LKkelAkBNV2gMg0JNPWKrdgX06qB7P7 k/aadtW2Q199LsHpcT/5g+u5qpJ9xkz035nVNCp3kQuN93oNAogkGkUseoC49NHQ L3R9Fcm+WMr7n+ohfP9YVeYXLDDrj6bK4dHUqH01VKzmj5FbbNAyfm9FY5KIkaqU MLC1V0fTvd6SlPOyuR3P/ZS1HH3dmq3XT5dN8m0/3/6rInWvdcfek6C90Azl6vrw 69j6o3IQ3bmB4Je1rGZ34fVsHDZCPTIuH9uDgX0bZfT4u7+JXRipYO0eB2I9nrfR +aTmn1YOxIxUVkow7SOb8ACOD36FWuKX3U9oQMZ8AuzuUBg27l+o6u+vebso7bVC 1oA4pt9ZwEZC4z/CihBI =RpLR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KKauK+tA+COOvO64-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html