From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Improve support for compressed man pages Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 13:57:54 +0100 Message-ID: <5714D9D2.8050501@gmail.com> References: <20160416022503.1df762cb.alex.miller@gmx.de> <20160416045058.GS6588@vapier.lan> <20160416183013.352f4ba6.alex.miller@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160416183013.352f4ba6.alex.miller-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Alexander Miller , Mike Frysinger Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 04/16/2016 05:30 PM, Alexander Miller wrote: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 00:50:58 -0400 > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> imo, we should just drop all compression support. distros already >> handle this properly and pick whatever they want/need. > > For distros this is useless, of course. I've never used it either. > But I guess there are still people installing stuff from sources > without using a package manager, and they might find it convenient. > >> if no one >> is using this code, then it's just sucking up space. > > I'm not concerned about the space, but code needs to be maintained. > IMO, as long as it works, we can keep it; if it has issues we'd > better remove it. > > We can drop compression support or do it right - I'm fine with > either option. We shouldn't keep the status quo, though. I'm inclined to say drop it. Would you mind putting together a patch, Alex? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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