Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: alternatives.eclass and ecompress
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:52:37
Message-Id: 20070205094937.5dc4272c@snowdrop
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: alternatives.eclass and ecompress by ulm@kph.uni-mainz.de (Ulrich Mueller)
1 On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:07:57 +0100 ulm@×××××××××××××.de (Ulrich Mueller)
2 wrote:
3 | What if the user specifies some other compression program in
4 | PORTAGE_COMPRESS?
5
6 Then they deserve whatever they get.
7
8 Really, this is getting rather silly. The cost far outweighs the gain
9 of providing the illusion of choice here -- I mean, it's not like the
10 compression program for man pages actually makes a scrap of difference
11 these days...
12
13 --
14 Ciaran McCreesh
15 Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org
16 Web : http://ciaranm.org/
17 Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/

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