[gentoo-dev] Re: alternatives.eclass and ecompress

[Christian Faulhammer]

Mike Kelly <pioto@g.o>:

> Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> >  Fine.  If I have a slotted package, every slot having
> > ${PN}.foo-${SLOT}.1.gz and I want people to be able to call `man
> > ${PN}`, how should that be done?
> You could look at eselect-vi[1] for how it handles this case,
> specifically the set_man_symlink() function.

 Thanks for the link, I found a solution myself, but nice to see a
different approach.  But my question is, WHY I shouldn't symlink to
compressed man pages.

V-Li