Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for compression handling

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> If there's an inclusion list and an exclusion list, there's only a
> need to delete things from the exclusion list if the exclusion list
> has bad initial values, and never any need to delete things from the
> inclusion list. And since reliably rewriting links in HTML when
> compressing is at best tricky and at worst impossible (think
> JavaScript navigationy things), is there ever going to be any need
> for removing from the exclusion list?

Right, probably there isn't. So we will need only two options:

   - "docompress" (without option or with option "-a"): add paths
     (directories or files) to the inclusion list
   - "docompress -x": add paths to the exclusion list

Ulrich