[gentoo-project] Re: Council meeting rescheduled for 20100927 at 1900UTC

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, I wrote:

> The docompress command (which is new in EAPI 4) could profit from a
> "-s" option [1]:

> ,----
> | If the first argument is -s, output the suffix used for compressed
> | files (e.g. .bz2); no further arguments are allowed in this case.
> `----

> I would like to ask the council for approval of this -s option.

I withdraw this request.

Considering the current discussion in -dev about omission of small
files, and that there are already user-configurable exceptions like
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES, I come to the conclusion that the
above could never work in a reliable way.

Ulrich