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From: ulm@kph.uni-mainz.de (Ulrich Mueller)
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: alternatives.eclass and ecompress
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:16:05
Message-Id: u64ah2ci8@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: alternatives.eclass and ecompress by Mike Frysinger
1 >>>>> On Mon, 05 Feb 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2
3 >> But my question is, WHY I shouldn't symlink to compressed man
4 >> pages.
5
6 > uhh, because you dont know what the compressed man page is ?
7
8 > what's wrong with doing `dosym foo.1 /usr/share/man/man1/boo.1` and
9 > letting ecompressdir fix the links ?
10
11 See bug #164969 <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164969> for
12 the original issue.
13
14 alternatives.eclass is called from pkg_postinst() or pkg_postrm()
15 and at that point the man pages are already compressed.
16
17 Ulrich
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: alternatives.eclass and ecompress Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>